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Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2019
Applicant:

Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);

Inventor:

John Ross Wallrabenstein, West Lafayette, IN (US);

Assignee:

Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3278 (2013.01); H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 9/3026 (2013.01); H04L 9/3066 (2013.01); H04L 9/3221 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device comprising: a physical unclonable function (PUF) device configured to generate an output value based on hardware characteristics of the PUF device; and a processor connected to the PUF device, the processor configured to: execute a cryptographic operation in a sequence of ordered stages including a first stage and a second stage, the executing comprising: in the first stage: recovering a first secret value based on a first output value obtained from the PUF device; executing a first sub-operation using the first secret value; and removing unobscured values from memory prior to execution of a subsequent stage; in the second stage: recovering a second secret value based on a second output value obtained from the PUF device; and executing a second sub-operation using the second secret value to enable execution of a cryptographic operation encoded with at least the first secret value and the second secret value.


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