Unconditionally Secure Credit/Debit Card Chip Scheme and Physical Unclonable Function Academic Article

abstract

• The statistical-physics-based Kirchhoff-lawJohnson-noise (KLJN) key exchange offers a new and simple unclonable system for credit/debit card chip authentication and payment. The key exchange, the authentication and the communication are unconditionally secure so that neither mathematics- nor statistics-based attacks are able to crack the scheme. The ohmic connection and the short wiring lengths between the chips in the card and the terminal constitute an ideal setting for the KLJN protocol, and even its simplest versions offer unprecedented security and privacy for credit/debit card chips and applications of physical unclonable functions (PUFs).

authors

• Entesari, Kamran
• Kish, Laszlo

published proceedings

• FLUCTUATION AND NOISE LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• Kish, L. B., Entesari, K., Granqvist, C., & Kwan, C.

citation count

• 15

complete list of authors

• Kish, Laszlo B||Entesari, Kamran||Granqvist, Claes-Goran||Kwan, Chiman

publication date

• March 2017

publisher

• World Scientific Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Fluctuation and Noise Letters (FNL)  Journal

keywords

• Card Protocol
• Kljn Key Exchange
• Puf
• Unconditional Security

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1142/S021947751750002X

start page

• 1750002

end page

• 1750002

volume

• 16

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1142%2Fs021947751750002x