MEMRISTOR-BASED HARDWARE SECURITY ALGORITHMS AND CIRCUITS

Abstract

Memristor as an emerging nanoscale technology offers great promise for building small-scale and energy-efficient hardware, including emerging security primitives. Memristor devices offer unique characteristics such as nonlinearity and unpredictable behavior variations. Each memristor device has its unique characteristics. This thesis presents a hardware security module (HSM) based on the memristive key generation scheme. This scheme depends mainly on the uniqueness property of the electrical characteristics of the Memristor devices. The generated Memristor-based key is used through AES encryption and decryption processes.