Abstract: A cryptographic system for reproducibly establishing a reliable data string, such as a cryptographic key, from a noisy physically unclonable function (PUF, 110) is provided. The system comprises a hard decision decoder (150) to decode a first multiple of error correctable data words to obtain a second multiple of corrected and decoded data words and a reliability information extractor (180) to determine reliability information, e.g. soft decision information, that is indicative of a reliability of corrected and decoded data words. The system further comprises a soft decision decoder (160) configured to use the reliability information to decode at least one further correctable data word. Error correcting a PUF using reliability information decreases the false rejection rate.

Abstract: A cryptographic system for reproducibly establishing a reliable data string, such as a cryptographic key, from a noisy physically unclonable function (PUF, 110) is provided. The system comprises a hard decision decoder (150) to decode a first multiple of error correctable data words to obtain a second multiple of corrected and decoded data words and a reliability information extractor (180) to determine reliability information, e.g. soft decision information, that is indicative of a reliability of corrected and decoded data words. The system further comprises a soft decision decoder (160) configured to use the reliability information to decode at least one further correctable data word. Error correcting a PUF using reliability information decreases the false rejection rate.

Abstract: Data is tokenized using multiple token tables. An initialization vector is generated based on a first data portion and a first set of token tables. The initialization vector can be generated by querying a first token table with the first data portion. A second data portion is tokenized based on the initialization vector and a second set of token tables. The second data portion can be modified with the initialization vector, and a second token table can be queried with the modified second data portion to form a tokenized second data portion. The first set and second set of token tables can be generated based on a received tokenization key, or can be previously generated. The first portion of the input data and the tokenized second data portion of the input data can be concatenated to form tokenized data.