PUF-Protected Pseudo-Homomorphic Methods to Generate Session Keys
Description
Central organizations managing networks of client devices, such as private enterprises, financial organizations, governments, and commercial entities are implementing stringent methods to prevent malicious use. Successful attacks can result in stealing large databases of passwords or malicious servers pretending to be legitimate downloading malware in large numbers of client devices. The present method aims to protect client devices connected to a server using session key generation based on physical unclonable functions (PUFs).
Additional information
Patent number and inventor
Patent Pending
Bertrand Cambou, Donald Telesca, H. Shelton Jacinto.
Potential applications
Cybersecurity applications.
Benefits and advantages
Hostile servers without a PUF (or a server having lost its PUF) cannot generate sessions keys as they would not be trust-worthy to the client devices.
Case number and licensing status
2021-048
Available for licensing