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- Patent Title: Device authentication based on analog characteristics without error correction
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Application No.: US15968513Application Date: 2018-05-01
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Publication No.: US10749694B2Publication Date: 2020-08-18
- Inventor: Robert W. Adams , John Ross Wallrabenstein , Deniz Karakoyunlu
- Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Norwood
- Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Norwood
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/32 ; H04L9/08

Abstract:
This application describes systems and methods for using a physical unclonable function (PUF) to authenticate a device, which may include circuitry for generating PUF values that may uniquely identify the device. According to one aspect, the device may provide enrollment PUF values to an authentication device. The device may later be authenticated if PUF values generated by the device are within a threshold distance of the enrollment PUF values. Since the PUF values are compared using a distance, it may not necessary to apply an error correcting code to the PUF values. The enrollment values and/or the calculated distance may be adjusted to compensate for time variations in the PUF values due to circuit aging. Systems and methods are also described herein for authenticating the device without revealing new PUF values to any second party, for example using a cryptographic technique known as a garbled circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190342105A1 DEVICE AUTHENTICATION BASED ON ANALOG CHARACTERISTICS WITHOUT ERROR CORRECTION Public/Granted day:2019-11-07
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