Bio-Inspired Electronic-Mutation with genetic properties for Secured Identification

One essential security weakness in many modern systems is the difficulty of managing secured and provable-identities for all participating entities. In this work we introduce a process for generating a secret provable identity for electronic devices. The identity is created through a random process that is triggered as an electronic-Mutation (EM) once at a user-defined time after device manufacture. The result should be a provable, certified, secret, unclonable, and unchangeable identity that can serve as an electronic DNA (e-DNA) for the device. The identity is self- created similar to naturally occurring Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF), such that it is infeasible even for the unit manufacturer to create duplicate identities. The proposed identity should in difference to PUF evolve through the lifetime of the device allowing for easier detection of fraud attacks. The identity should also possibly diffuse in all system entities similar to the diffusion of biological DNA in all entities of a living organism. Many legal and criminal issues plaguing mass public-commerce, e-Government and mobile systems could be easily resolved through such an identification technology.