US Patent 11868513 Physical unclonable function at a memory device

Various examples are directed to systems and methods for providing a digital fingerprint of a selected portion of a memory device to a host device. A host device executing at a host device may send a to a driver a command to produce digital fingerprint data. The command may include an output pointer indicating a memory location of the local memory. The driver may generate a modified command that does not include the output pointer. The driver may send the modified command to a memory device. The driver may receive a reply comprising the digital fingerprint data and write the digital fingerprint data to a location at the memory location of local memory of the host device indicated by the output pointer.