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[Ravi Pappu]

Peter,

That paper was the result of my dissertation.

The reference is

Physical-One Way Functions
R. Pappu, B. Recht, J. Taylor, N. Gershenfeld
Science, vol. 297, pp. 2026-2030, 20 September 2002

The actual paper is available from
http://web.media.mit.edu/~pappu/htm/publications.htm

The current issue of RSA's Cryptobytes has a more
detailed article.

http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/cryptobytes/

Best,

Ravi

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