{"id":143171,"date":"2022-07-30T08:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-self-healing-and-self-concealing-silicon-chip-fingerprint-for-stronger-hardware-security"},"modified":"2022-07-31T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T16:14:03","slug":"a-self-healing-and-self-concealing-silicon-chip-fingerprint-for-stronger-hardware-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-self-healing-and-self-concealing-silicon-chip-fingerprint-for-stronger-hardware-security","title":{"rendered":"A self-healing and self-concealing silicon chip \u2018fingerprint\u2019 for stronger, hardware security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-self-healing-and-self-concealing-silicon-chip-fingerprint-for-stronger-hardware-security2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel technique that allows Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) to produce more secure, unique \u2018fingerprint\u2019 outputs at a very low cost. This achievement enhances the level of hardware security even in low-end systems on chips.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, PUFs are embedded in several commercial chips to uniquely distinguish one <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/silicon+chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon chip<\/a> from another by generating a secret key, similar to an individual fingerprint. Such a technology prevents hardware piracy, chip counterfeiting and physical attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The research team from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering has taken silicon chip fingerprinting to the next level with two significant improvements: firstly, making PUFs self-healing; and secondly, enabling them to self-conceal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel technique that allows Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) to produce more secure, unique \u2018fingerprint\u2019 outputs at a very low cost. This achievement enhances the level of hardware security even in low-end systems on chips. Traditionally, PUFs are embedded in several commercial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143296,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143171\/revisions\/143296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}