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It’s Hammer Time: How to Attack (Rowhammer-based) DRAM-PUFs

Zeitouni, Shaza ; Gens, David ; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza (2018):
It’s Hammer Time: How to Attack (Rowhammer-based) DRAM-PUFs.
In: Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2018,
[Conference or Workshop Item]

Abstract

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are still considered promising technology as building blocks in cryptographic protocols. While most PUFs require dedicated circuitry, recent research leverages DRAM hardware for PUFs due to its intrinsic properties and wide deployment. Recently, a new memory-based PUF was proposed that utilizes the infamous Rowhammer effect in DRAM. In this paper, we show two remote attacks on DRAM-based PUFs. First, a DoS attack that exploits the Rowhammer effect to manipulate PUF responses. Second, a modeling attack that predicts PUF responses by observing few challenge-response pairs. Our results indicate that DRAM may not be suitable for PUFs.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item
Erschienen: 2018
Creators: Zeitouni, Shaza ; Gens, David ; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza
Title: It’s Hammer Time: How to Attack (Rowhammer-based) DRAM-PUFs
Language: English
Abstract:

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are still considered promising technology as building blocks in cryptographic protocols. While most PUFs require dedicated circuitry, recent research leverages DRAM hardware for PUFs due to its intrinsic properties and wide deployment. Recently, a new memory-based PUF was proposed that utilizes the infamous Rowhammer effect in DRAM. In this paper, we show two remote attacks on DRAM-based PUFs. First, a DoS attack that exploits the Rowhammer effect to manipulate PUF responses. Second, a modeling attack that predicts PUF responses by observing few challenge-response pairs. Our results indicate that DRAM may not be suitable for PUFs.

Journal or Publication Title: Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2018
Book Title: Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2018
Uncontrolled Keywords: Primitives; P3
Divisions: 20 Department of Computer Science
20 Department of Computer Science > System Security Lab
DFG-Collaborative Research Centres (incl. Transregio)
DFG-Collaborative Research Centres (incl. Transregio) > Collaborative Research Centres
Profile Areas
Profile Areas > Cybersecurity (CYSEC)
DFG-Collaborative Research Centres (incl. Transregio) > Collaborative Research Centres > CRC 1119: CROSSING – Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments
Date Deposited: 19 Feb 2018 12:30
Identification Number: TUD-CS-2018-0033
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