Governments want your smart devices to have stupid security flaws

Aftergood, Steven

doi:10.1038/d41586-018-06033-9

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“…Internet of Things devices, including consumer and healthcare wearables, have become highly vulnerable to potential attacks, partly because of the rapid growth in communication technologies, including fifth-generation mobile networks. , Recent advances in quantum computing also imply an imperative need for high-level security in the cyberspace and physical space domains. − Advanced cryptographic primitives with high-level security have received considerable attention as a solution for mediating security protocols and hardware security operations. − Such hardware security technologies often do not rely on conventional nonvolatile memory. − Specifically, a physical unclonable function (PUF) is considered as an immediately available hardware security solution for key generation, authentication, and identification. ,− …”

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Heteronanostructured Field-Effect Transistors for Enhancing Entropy and Parameter Space in Electrical Unclonable Primitives

Park,

Leem,

Park

et al. 2023

ACS Nano

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Hardware security is not a new problem but is ever-growing in consumer and medical domains owing to hyperconnectivity. A physical unclonable function (PUF) offers a promising hardware security solution for cryptographic key generation, identification, and authentication. However, electrical PUFs using nanomaterials or two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) often have limited entropy and parameter space sources, both of which increase the vulnerability to attacks and act as bottlenecks for practical applications. We report an electrical PUF with enhanced entropy as well as parameter space by incorporating 2D TMDC heteronanostructures into field-effect transistors (FETs). Lateral heteronanostructures of 2D molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide serve as a potent entropy source. The variable feature of FETs is further leveraged to enhance the parameter space that provides multiple challenge−response pairs, which are essential for PUFs. This combination results in stably repeatable yet highly variable FET characteristics as alternative electrical PUFs. Comprehensive PUF performance analyses validate the bit uniformity, reproducibility, uniqueness, randomness, false rates, and encoding capacity. The 2D material heteronanostructure-driven electrical PUFs with strong FETto-FET variability can potentially be augmented as an immediately deployable and scalable security solution for various hardware devices.

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Heteronanostructured Field-Effect Transistors for Enhancing Entropy and Parameter Space in Electrical Unclonable Primitives

Park,

Leem,

Park

et al. 2023

ACS Nano

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“…"Everything is now a computer. The digital nightmare is about to get much worse," claims Bruce Schneier in his latest book Click Here to Kill Everybody [7].…”

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Will Zero Vulnerability Computing (Zvc) Ever Be Possible? Testing the Hypothesis

Raheman¹,

Bhagat²,

Vermeulen

et al. 2022

SSRN Journal

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“…"Everything is now a computer. The digital nightmare is about to get much worse", claims Bruce Schneier in his latest book Click Here to Kill Everybody [7]. The first computers were gigantic calculating machines, and all they ever really did was "crunch numbers": solve lengthy, difficult, or tedious mathematical problems.…”

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Will Zero Vulnerability Computing (ZVC) Ever Be Possible? Testing the Hypothesis

Raheman¹,

Bhagat²,

Vermeulen

et al. 2022

Future Internet

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Life without computers is unimaginable. However, computers remain vulnerable to cybercrimes, a USD 6 trillion industry that the world has come to accept as a “necessary evil.” Third-party permissions resulting in an attack surface (AS) and in-computer storage that computers mandate are key design elements that hackers exploit, formerly by remote malware installation and later by stealing personal data using authentication faking techniques. In legacy computers, the AS cannot be completely eliminated, nor can a connected device retain data offline, rendering fool-proof cybersecurity impossible. Although the architects of legacy computers made perfectly reasonable engineering trade-offs for their world, our world is very different. Zero vulnerability computing (ZVC) challenges the impossible with in-computer offline storage (ICOS) and Supra OS (SOS), to deliver comprehensive protection against vulnerabilities. The feasibility of ZVC is demonstrated in a tiny permanently computer-mounted hardware wallet, providing the first evidence of the complete obliteration of the AS. Malware cannot infect the ZVC device on account of lacking an AS, nor can personal data be hacked as they mostly remain offline, except for sporadic processing. Further research should explore whether ZVC can fully secure computers in more complex real-world scenarios and open a new epoch in the evolution of computers and the Internet.

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Governments want your smart devices to have stupid security flaws

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Heteronanostructured Field-Effect Transistors for Enhancing Entropy and Parameter Space in Electrical Unclonable Primitives

Heteronanostructured Field-Effect Transistors for Enhancing Entropy and Parameter Space in Electrical Unclonable Primitives

Will Zero Vulnerability Computing (Zvc) Ever Be Possible? Testing the Hypothesis

Will Zero Vulnerability Computing (ZVC) Ever Be Possible? Testing the Hypothesis

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