UNMET NEED
Increased network integration and digitalization of industries requires significant trust in the communication platform. At the initial step of all high-level cybersecurity architectures, it is crucial to ensure identification and authentication of the users and devices in the network, without compromising the performances of the communication protocols. To that aim, hardware based Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) integrated at the hardware level of the network promised fast and unique securitization. A PUF is a physical device based on inherent and irreproducible randomness stemming from the manufacturing process that provides them with an unclonable and unique “fingerprint”. How to integrate them in high-speed fiber-optic network is the challenge for the next generation of secure architecture.
