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How to generate random numbers on RFID Tag ?

How to generate random numbers on RFID Tag ?. Kirti Chawla kirti@cs.virginia.edu. Basic Problem and Challenges. > Basic Problem: To generate reliable and unpredictable random numbers on a RFID tag. > Hardware description of RFID tag:

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How to generate random numbers on RFID Tag ?

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  1. How to generate random numbers on RFID Tag ? Kirti Chawla kirti@cs.virginia.edu

  2. Basic Problem and Challenges > Basic Problem: To generate reliable and unpredictable random numbers on a RFID tag • > Hardware description of RFID tag: • Battery (Active tags) or battery-less operation (Passive Tags) • Paper, PET (plastic) Inlay • Various form factors (stamp-size to PDA-size) • > Challenges: • Limited power supply (Passive tags power off reader supplied RF signal) • Limited circuit space (1 RFID tag ~ 4k-8k Gates) • Lower limits on circuit complexity (Limits the use of stronger RNG schemes) • Strength of generated random numbers (True-RNG, Pseudo-RNG)

  3. Requirements and Approaches > EPC C1 G2 Protocol for Communication at 860-960 MHz Requirement: An EPC C1 G2 compliant Tag must contain a 16-bit random or pseudo-random number generator • > A few candidate approaches: • Direct Amplification • Oscillator Sampling • Discrete-time Chaos • Initial SRAM state • Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs)

  4. Approach 1: Direct Amplification • > How it works ? • Use high-gain high-bandwidth OP-AMP to process the AC voltage produced by a noise (e.g. thermal or shot noise) source. • Noise must be sufficiently amplified to a level where it can be accurately captured in a bias-free manner. > More Precisely: 1 K.r(n) < VOffset B(n) = 0 otherwise K B(n) r(n) Paper: Craig S. Petrie, and J. Alvin Connelly , “A Noise-Based IC Random Number Generator for Applications in Cryptography”

  5. Approach 1: Direct Amplification • > Merits: • Popular technique for single-chip solution, where shielding of noise source is possible. • Simple concept. • Less power and circuit-space requirement. • > De-Merits: • In an integrated circuit (IC) environment, lack of appropriate shielding of noise source from power supply and substrate signals can prohibit the use of this method. • May be affected by 1/f (pink) noise.

  6. Approach 2: Oscillator Sampling • > How it works ? • Use free running oscillators as a source of phase noise to generate randomness. • Output of a fast oscillator is sampled on the rising edge of a slower clock using D flip-flop. • Oscillator jitter causes randomness in exact sampled values. > More Precisely: 1 t(n + 1) < m[C0 + C1r(n) + C2r2(n)] B(n) = 0 otherwise Where, .t(n+1) = ((t(n) + Ts)MOD(C0 + C1r(n) + C2r2(n)) .m = fast oscillator duty cycle. [0, 1] .C0, C1, C2 = Model non-linear transfer function .Ts = slow clock frequency .MOD = modulo operator B(n) t(n+1) r(n) Paper: Craig S. Petrie, and J. Alvin Connelly , “A Noise-Based IC Random Number Generator for Applications in Cryptography”

  7. Approach 2: Oscillator Sampling • Merits: • More robust technique in the presence of deterministic noise. • Randomness can be artificially enhanced by careful selection of ratio of fast and slow oscillator frequencies. • De-Merits: • Research shows that, certain levels of oscillator jitter are not sufficient to produce statistical randomness. • Use of pseudo-random techniques to mitigate 1, can further degrade randomness of the output.

  8. Approach 3: Discrete-time Chaos • > How it works ? • Uses discrete-time analog signal processing techniques such as PWL system • Divergence of dynamic properties of the signal (or trajectory) and addition of noise generates randomness. > More Precisely: 1 i(n+1) < Iref B(n) = 0 otherwise Where, .i(n+1) = A1[[BN(i(n) + r(n))] MOD Iref] + A0 .N = # of stages .B = Stage gain .Iref = Reference current .A0 and A1 = Sample-Hold offset and gain Paper: Craig S. Petrie, and J. Alvin Connelly , “A Noise-Based IC Random Number Generator for Applications in Cryptography”

  9. Approach 3: Discrete-time Chaos • Merits: • Insensitive to the presence of deterministic noise. • Randomness is obtained from robust signal dynamic properties and not noise. • De-Merits: • Circuit inaccuracies that limit A/D resolution also lead to statistical non-randomness.

  10. Approach 4: Initial SRAM State • > How it works ? • Process variation in SRAM cell enables the noise influence to determine the outcome of the bit. • Well matched devices (based on doping concentration) are used as entropy source. These devices are randomly scattered over the SRAM. • Uses entropy extractor to for fetching entropy from randomly scattered well matched devices. Paper: Daniel E. Holcomb, Wayne P. Burleson, and Kevin Fu, “Initial SRAM State as a Fingerprint and Source of True Random Numbers for RFID Tags”

  11. Approach 4: Initial SRAM State • Merits: • Small volatile memory can be added to tag cheaply. • Use of Universal hash function provides statistical randomness. • De-Merits: • Gathered entropy from the scattered devices may not have statistical randomness. • Implementing Universal hash function can be costly on RFID tag.

  12. Approach 5: PUFs • > How it works ? • Maps a set of challenges to a set of responses using a intractably complex physical system. • Process variation causes significant delay differences between various ICs. • Relative delay between two paths can be measured. Paper: Charles W. O’Donnell, G. Edward Suh, and Srinivas Devadas, “PUF Based Random Number Generation”

  13. Approach 5: PUFs • Merits: • PUFs generate statistical randomness. • Randomness is based on easily available process variation. • De-Merits: • Corrector / decorrelator is required. • It is possible that in 1 run less than desired no. of bits are produced.

  14. References • Charles W. O’Donnell, G. Edward Suh, and Srinivas Devadas, “PUF Based Random Number Generation”, MIT CSAIL, Technical Memo, 2004 • Karsten Nohl, “Implementable Privacy for RFID Systems”, Ph.D Thesis, University of Virginia, 2009 • Damith C. Ranasinghe, “Lightweight Cryptography on Low cost RFID”, Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography, Springer, 2007 • Wenyi Che, Huan Deng, Xi Tan, and Junyu Wang, “A Random Number Generator for Application in RFID Tags”, Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography, Springer, 2007 • Craig S. Petrie, M and J. Alvin Connelly, “A Noise-Based IC Random Number Generator for Applications in Cryptography”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems: Fundamental Theory, Vol. 47, No. 5, May 2000 • Ganesh K. Balachandran, and Raymond E. Barnett, “A 440-nA True Random Number Generator for Passive RFID Tags”, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems, Vol. 55. No. 11, December 2008 • Daniel E. Holcomb, Wayne P. Burleson, and Kevin Fu, “Initial SRAM State as a Fingerprint and Source of True Random Numbers for RFID Tags”, RFIDSec, 2007

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