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Publications

This is a full inventory of NAU’s Cybersecurity Research program publications, granted patents and currently pending patents and disclosures. For more detail regarding the publications please reach out to the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems department.

List of publications

  1. B. Cambou, D. Telesca, S. Assiri, M. Garrett, S. Jain, M. Partridge; TRNGs from Pre-Formed ReRAM Arrays; MDPI Cryptography, Feb. 2021;
  2. Mohammad, B. Cambou; C. Philabaum, N. Duan, “Resilient Password Manager Using Physical Unclonable Functions”; IEEE Xplore, open access, Jan. 2021;
  3. B. Cambou, B-Y Chen; “Temper sensitive ternary ReRAM-based PUFs; accepted for the SAI 2021 Computing conference; July 2021 (accepted);
  4. C. Philabaum, B. Cambou, M. Gowanlock; “A response based cryptographic engine in distributed-memory; accepted for the SAI 2021 IEEE Computing conference; July 2021 (accepted);
  5. P. Flikkema, J. Palmer, T. Yalcin, and B. Cambou; “Dynamic Computational Diversity with Multi-Radix Logic and Memory”,24th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference, Sept. 2020;
  6. B. Cambou, M. Mohammadi, C. Philabaum, and D. Booher; Statistical Analysis to Optimize the Generation of Cryptographic Keys from Physical Unclonable Functions; SAI Computing, July 2020;
  7. Y. Zhu, B. Cambou, D. Hely, and S. Assiri; Extended Protocol using Keyless Encryption Based On Memristors; IEEE SAI Computing, July 2020;
  8. S. Assiri, B. Cambou, D. Booher, M. Mohammadi; Software Implementation of SRAM PUF-based Password Manager; IEEE SAI Computing, July 2020;
  9. Cambou, D. Hely, S. Assiri; Cryptography with analog scheme using memristors; Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, ACM publications, June 2020;
  10. Cambou, M. Gowanlock, J. Heynssens, S. Jain, C. Philabaum, D. Booher, I. Burke, J. Garrard, D. Telesca, and L. Njilla, Securing Additive Manufacturing with Blockchains and Distributed Physically Unclonable Functions; MDPI, Cryptography, June 2020;
  11. A. Ali Pour, V. Beroulle, B. Cambou, J-L Danger, G. Di Natale, D. Hely, S. Guilley and N. Karimi; PUF Enrollment and Life Cycle Management: Solutions and Perspectives for the Test Community; IEEE European Test Symposium, April 2020;
  12. B. Cambou; Ternary Cryptography for the Blockchain Technology; Web-seminar Cyber Security & Information Analysis Center (CSIAC), Jan 2020;
  13. B. Cambou; “Password Manager Combining Hashing Functions and Ternary PUFs”; 2019 SAI computing conference, IEEE;
  14. A. Korenda, F. Afghah, B. Cambou, and C. Philabaum ; ”A proof of concept SRAM-based PUF key generation for IoT”; SECON 2019, IEEE;
  15. M. Mohammadi, B. Cambou, C. Philabaum, D. Hely, and D. Booher; “Implementation of Password Management System Using Ternary Addressable PUF Generator“; SECON 2019, IEEE
  16. B. Cambou, C. Philabaum, and D. Booher; “Replacing error correction by key fragmentation and search engines to generate error-free cryptographic keys from PUFs”, CryptArchi2019 June 2019;
  17. B. Cambou; “ Unequally powered Cryptography with PUFs for networks of IoTs”;  IEEE Spring Simulation Conference, May 2019;
  18. B. Cambou, C. Philabaum, D. Booher, D. Telesca; “Response-Based Cryptographic Methods with Ternary Physical Unclonable Functions”; 2019 SAI FICC, IEEE;  March 2019;
  19. D. Booher, B. Cambou, A. Carlson, C. Philabaum; “Dynamic Key Generation for Polymorphic encryption”; IEEE CCWC, Jan 2019 (best paper award in the category of applied mathematics and cryptography);
  20. S. Assiri, B. Cambou, B. Booher, D Ghanai Miandoab, M. Mohammadi; ‘’ Key Exchange using Ternary System to Enhance Security‘’; IEEE CCWC, Jan 2019;
  21. B. Cambou, D. Telesca; “Ternary Computing to Strengthen Cybersecurity, Development of Ternary State based Public Key Exchange”, 2018 SAI computing conference, IEEE sponsored; Jul 2018;
  22. B.Cambou; “Addressable PUF Generators for Database-free Password Management System”; CryptArchi June 2018;
  23. A. Korenda, F. Afghah and B. Cambou, “A Secret Key Generation Scheme for Internet of Things using Ternary-States ReRAM-based Physical Unclonable Functions“; International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) June 2018;
  24. B. Cambou, P. Flikkema, J. Palmer, D. Telesca, and C. Philabaum; “Can Ternary Computing Improve Information Assurance?”; Cryptography,  MDPI; Feb 2018;
  25. B.Cambou; “Design of TRNGs with ternary PUFs”; JASIST Feb 2018;
  26. F. Afghah, B. Cambou, M. Abedini, Z. Sherali; “A ReRAM PUF-based Approach to Enhance Authentication Security in Software Defined Wireless Networks”, Springer International Journal on Wireless Information Networks, January, 2018;
  27. F. Afghah, B. Cambou, M. Abedini, S. Zeadally; “Localization of assets is a critical component of smart building applications”; IJWIN, 2018;
  28. B. Cambou; “A XOR compiler combined with physical unclonable function for TRNG”; 2017 SAI IEEE computing conference, July 2107;
  29. A Valehi, A Razi, B Cambou, W Yu, M Kozicki; “A graph matching algorithm for user authentication in data networks using image-based physical unclonable functions”; 2017 SAI computing conference; July 2017;
  30. E. Fossum, B. Cambou, A. Howard, B. Hsiao, M. Oden; “Impacting Society through Invention and Entrepreneurship”;  2017 NAI Annual Conference; New Jersey; June 2017;
  31. P. Flikkema, B. Cambou; “When Things are Sensors for Cloud AI: Protecting Privacy Through Data Collection Transparency in the Age of Digital Assistants”, 2017 IEEE Global IoT Summit (GIoTS-2017), June 2017;
  32. B Cambou, F Afghah, D Sonderegger, J Taggart, H Barnaby, M Kozicki; “Ag conductive bridge rams for physical unclonable functions”; 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST); May 2017;
  33. B Habib, B Cambou, D Booher, C Philabaum; “Public key exchange scheme that is addressable (PKA)”; 2017 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security;
  34. B. Cambou; “Chapter 10: Enhancing secure elements – Technology and Architecture”; book“; Foundation of Hardware IP protection”, editors Bossuet/Torres of Springer, 2017;
  35. P. Flikkema and B. Cambou; “Adapting Processor Architectures for the Periphery of the IoT Nervous System”; IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), December, 2016;
  36. B. Cambou, M. Orlowski; “Physical Unclonable Functions designed with ternary states”; 2016 ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-3752-6/16/04;
  37. B. Cambou, F. Afghah; “Physically Unclonable Functions with multi-states and Machine Learning”; CryptoArchi2016; June 2016;
  38. B. Cambou, J. Gibbs; “Firewall with Nano-Helix PUFs for fiber-optic communication”; CryptArchi 2016; June 2016;
  39. B.Cambou, P. Flikkema, and C. Ciocanel; ”Integrated Technology and Policy Enabling Large-Scale Deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): Trustworthiness and Threat Mitigation”; IEEE workshop on IoT security, February 2016;

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List of granted patents

  1. B. Cambou, J Gibbs; Nanomaterial Physically Unclonable Function Systems and Related Methods; US patent 10,790,994, Sep 2020;
  2. D. Telesca, B.Cambou, P. Flikkema; Dynamic Hybridized Positional Notation Instruction Set Computer Architecture to enhance security; US patent 10,747,711, Aug 2020;
  3. B. Cambou, Fatemeh Afghah; Multi-state unclonable functions and related systems – Part II; US patent 10,644,892; May 2020;
  4. B. Cambou, Fatemeh Afghah; Multi-state unclonable functions and related systems – Part I; US patent 10,574,467; May 2020;
  5. D. Telesca, B. Cambou, P. Flikkema; Dynamic Hybridized Positional Notation Instruction Set Computer Architecture to enhance security; Notice of allowance by USPTO on Feb 2020;
  6. B. Cambou, A.Razi; “ Authentication of images extracted from unclonable objects”; US patent 10,503,890, Dec 2019;
  7. B. Cambou;  PUF Hardware Arrangement for Increased Throughput – Part III; US patent 10,491,408; Nov 2019;
  8. B. Cambou; PUF Hardware Arrangement for Increased Throughput – Part II; US patent 10,484,188; Nov 2019;
  9. F. Afghah, B. Cambou; “Authentication based on a challenge and a response, a PUF and machine learning ”; US patent: 10,469,273; Nov 2019;
  10. B. Cambou; “System implementing Hierarchical Level of Security”; US patent: 10,454,691; Oct 2019;
  11. B. Cambou; “ Encoding Ternary Data for PUF Environment”- Part II ; US patent 10,432,410; Oct 2019;
  12. B. Cambou; “Data Compiler for True Random Number Generation and Related Methods”- Part II; US patents: 10,402,171; Oct 2019;
  13. B. Cambou; “PUF based password generation scheme ”; Disclosure: 10,320,573; Sep 2016; June 2019;
  14. B. Cambou; “PUF Hardware Arrangement for Increased Throughput”; assignee: Arizona Board of Regent; US patent: 10,185,820; Jan 2019;
  15. B. Cambou; “Data Compiler for True Random Number Generation and Related Methods”; assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, US patent: 10,175,949 B2; Jan 2019;
  16. B. Cambou; “Encoding Ternary Data for PUF Environment”; assignee: Arizona Board of Regents; US patent 10,050,796; Aug 2018;
  17. B. Cambou; “Physically Unclonable Function generating systems and related methods”; assignee: Arizona Board of Regents; US patent 9,985791; May 2018;
  18. B. Cambou; “Random numbers generating system and related methods”; assignee: Arizona Board of Regents; US patent 9,971,566; May 2018;

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List of pending patents and disclosures

  1. B. Cambou, M. Garrett, S. Assiri, S. Jain, M. Partridge ; “TRNGs designed with preformed ReRAMs; NAU case D2021-027; Nov 2020
  2. B.Cambou, M. Gowanlock, B. Yildiz, D. Ghanaimiandoab, K. Lee, C. Philabaum, A. Stenberg, S. Nelson, J. Wright; PUF-based Key Generation for Lattice and Code Cryptography, NAU case D2021-022; Oct 2020;
  3. F. Ashwija, S. Assiri, F. Afghah, B. Cambou; Keyless Encapsulation and Error Correcting Schemes; NAU case D2021-006; Aug 2020
  4. B.Cambou, J. Heynssens, T. Begay, I. Burke; Sensing Scheme for Low power ReRAM-based PUF; NAU case D2021-002; Jul 2020
  5. B. Cambou; Methods for Fast Cryptographic Key Generation from Memristor-based Physically Unclonable Computed Functions; NAU case D2020-32; Apr 2020;
  6. B. Cambou; Cell-Pairing for Cryptographic Keys Generation From Memristors at Low Power; NAU case D2020-034; April 2020
  7. M. Mohammadi, B. Cambou; Resilient Password Management System Using an Array of Addressable Physical Unclonable Functions; NAU case D2020-30; Mar 2020;
  8. I. Montano, R. Behunin, B. Cambou; Secure Multi-State Quantum Key Distribution With Wave-Division Multiplexing; NAU case D2020-011; Oct 2019;
  9. D. Hely, and B. Cambou; “Secure Enrollment for PUFs”; NAU case D2019-046, May 2019;
  10. F. Assiri, and B.Cambou; “Homomorphic Password Manager using Multi-Hash with PUFs”; NAU case D2019-045, May 2019
  11. P. Flikkema, and B. Cambou; “Computer Processor for Active Cyberattack defense”; NAU case D2019-028, Feb. 2019;
  12. B. Cambou; “PUF based encryption scheme with combination of hashing methods” NAU case D2019-026, Jan. 2019;
  13. B. Cambou; “Keyless encryption schemes with addressable PUFs”; NAU case D2019-021; Dec 2018;
  14. B.Cambou; “PUF based key generation for cryptographic schemes with multiple hashing of private keys”; NAU case D2019-0016, Nov 2018;
  15. B. Cambou; “unequally powered cryptography with PUFs”; NAU case D2019-008; Sept 2018
  16. B. Cambou, D. Booher, and C. Philabaum; “Response-Based Cryptography with PUFs”; NAU case D2018-049; June 2018;
  17. B. Cambou; “Digital Signature for blockchains with ternary PUFs”; NAU case D2018-047 May 2018;
  18. B. Cambou; “Password management with Addressable PUF generators”; NAU case D2018-040; Apr 2018;
  19. D. Booher, B. Cambou; “Generation of composite private keys”; NAU case D2018-038 Apr 2018;
  20. B. Cambou; “Strengthening quantum key distribution with addressable PUFs and ternary states”; NAU case: D2018-033; Mar 2018;
  21. B. Cambou; “Quantum key distribution”; NAU case: D2018-010; Nov 2017;
  22. B. Cambou; “Generation of Keys with variable length”; NAU case: D2018-004; Sept 2017;
  23. B. Cambou, D. Telesca, B. Villa; “Artificial neuron synaptic weights implemented with variable, dissolvable conductive paths”; NAU case D2018-002; Aug 2017;
  24. B. Cambou, C. Philabaum, D. Telesca; “Key exchange schemes with addressable elements”; NAU case: D2017-045; Nov 2017;
  25. B. Cambou, R. Chipana, B. Habib; “PUF with dissolvable conductive paths”; NAU case: D2017-033; Apr 2017;
  26. B. Cambou; “Native ternary random numbers generator”; NAU case: D2017-032; Apr 2017;
  27. B. Cambou, P. Flikkema; “Multi-Functional Units for Ternary Computing“; NAU case: D2017-022; Feb 2017;
  28. B. Cambou; “Encryption schemes with addressable elements”; NAU case: D2017-020; Jan 2017;
  29. A. Razi, B. Cambou; “Securing Distributed Elements Connected to a Network with Addressable PUFs”; NAU case: D2017-019; Jan 2017;
  30. B. Cambou, R. Chipana, B. Habib; “Securing Physically Unclonable Functions with additional random ternary states ”; NAU case: D2017-017; Dec 2016;
  31. B. Cambou; “PUFs from sensors and their calibration”; Disclosure: 2018/0,006,830; May 2016;

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