Lightweight Hardware Security and Physically Unclonable Functions: Improving Security of Constrained IoT Devices

This book discusses the design and evaluation of Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) that are suitable for securing highly energy constrained devices, while at the same time classifying the many applications and devices that would benefit from various PUF designs. The authors provide a comprehensive study of the various approaches that are used to mitigate PUFs’ shortcomings, while at the same time highlighting those that are most efficient. Coverage also includes state-of-the-art approaches to designing PUFs with high resilience to machine learning attacks and hardware implementation of area-efficient and high performing PUF architectures. The authors also classify different IoT applications and devices, depending on their security needs and limitations, offering a new perspective on how different PUF designs fit in the overall scope of IoT security.

Dr. Kasem Khalil is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Mississippi.

Haytham Idriss is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, at the Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Tarek Idriss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, at Western Washington University.

Dr. Magdy A. Bayoumi is Director of The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), and Department Head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). He is also the Z.L. Loflin Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair Professor in Computer Science.