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New Quantum Protocol Audits Delay-PUF Security Models

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A new research paper introduces the Three-Gate Quantum Audit Protocol, designed to evaluate the security models of delay-based physical unclonable functions (PUFs) using quantum Fourier sampling. The protocol analyzes the effectiveness of quantum Fourier sampling against classical comparators and oracle synthesis, finding no end-to-end advantage in the evaluated scenarios. While ideal sampling shows a slight benefit in coherent calls for a specific task, the research concludes that the protocol helps distinguish between theoretical quantum query advantages and practical security benefits, emphasizing it's not a claim about deployed hardware. AI

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New Quantum Protocol Audits Delay-PUF Security Models

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Owen Friedewald, Ali Shiri Sichani, Chi-Ren Shyu ·

    Where Quantum Fourier Sampling Stops Short: A Three-Gate Audit Protocol for Delay-PUF Security Models

    arXiv:2610.02636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Fourier sampling may help audit the spectral learnability of delay-based physical unclonable functions (PUFs). We ask whether that promise survives access matching, a strong classical comparator, and oracle synthesis. Thre…

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