Secret-free security: A survey and tutorial

U Rührmair - Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Abstract “Classical keys,” ie, secret keys stored permanently in digital form in nonvolatile
memory, appear indispensable in modern computer security—but also constitute an obvious …

Harnessing disorder for photonic device applications

H Cao, Y Eliezer - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
For photonic devices, structural disorder and light scattering have long been considered
annoying and detrimental features that were best avoided or minimized. This review shows …

SpyHammer: Using RowHammer to remotely spy on temperature

L Orosa, U Rührmair, AG Yağlikçi, H Luo… - …, 2022 - research-collection.ethz.ch
RowHammer is a DRAM vulnerability that can cause bit errors in a victim DRAM row by just
accessing its neighboring DRAM rows at a high-enough rate. Recent studies demonstrate …

All-optical multilevel physical unclonable functions

S Nocentini, U Rührmair, M Barni, DS Wiersma… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Disordered photonic structures are promising for the realization of physical unclonable
functions—physical objects that can overcome the limitations of conventional digital security …

Silicon photonic physical unclonable function

BC Grubel, BT Bosworth, MR Kossey, H Sun… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Physical unclonable functions (PUFs) serve as a hardware source of private information that
cannot be duplicated and have applications in hardware integrity and information security …

Continuous-variable quantum authentication of physical unclonable keys

GM Nikolopoulos, E Diamanti - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We propose a scheme for authentication of physical keys that are materialized by optical
multiple-scattering media. The authentication relies on the optical response of the key when …

Sok: Towards secret-free security

U Ruhrmair - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Attacks and …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Digital secret keys are indispensable in modern cryptography and computer security-but at
the same time constitute a routinely exploited attack target in every hardware system that …

Secure communications using nonlinear silicon photonic keys

BC Grubel, BT Bosworth, MR Kossey, AB Cooper… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present a secure communication system constructed using pairs of nonlinear photonic
physical unclonable functions (PUFs) that harness physical chaos in integrated silicon micro …

SpyHammer: Understanding and Exploiting RowHammer under Fine-Grained Temperature Variations

L Orosa, U Rührmair, AG Yagӏıkçı, H Luo… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
RowHammer is a DRAM vulnerability that can cause bit errors in a victim DRAM row solely
by accessing its neighboring DRAM rows at a high-enough rate. Recent studies …

Physical realization of a hyper unclonable function

S Nocentini, U Rührmair, M Barni, DS Wiersma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Disordered photonic structures are promising materials for the realization of physical
unclonable functions (PUF), physical objects that can overcome the limitations of …