COVID-19 pandemic has spread very fast across the world. This has been a surprise to everyone and shown how unprepared the world was for such a pandemic. Tracking the host carrying the virus has been one of the major issues during this pandemic. Many potential solutions were proposed for tracking the host but the privacy and security of the people being tracked are at stake in this case. This article proposes physical unclonable function (PUF)-based privacy-aware identification module, an Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) architecture to track the host carrying the virus in a crowded area. The privacy and security of the host or the person carrying the IoMT device is given the highest priority and the data being transmitted do not contain any data related to the person carrying the device. A new multikey PUF architecture is also proposed in this article to generate unique identification keys for the proposed protocol. The average time taken to generate the key is 1 s. The keys generated have a uniqueness and reliability of 49.49% and 48.20%. The proposed protocol is independent of a communication, which makes it adaptable across multiple platforms.

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PIM：一种基于 PUF 的主机跟踪协议，用于在拥挤地区进行隐私感知接触跟踪

COVID-19 大流行在世界范围内传播得非常快。这让每个人都感到惊讶，并表明世界对这种大流行病的准备不足。追踪携带病毒的宿主一直是此次大流行期间的主要问题之一。提出了许多潜在的解决方案来跟踪主机，但在这种情况下，被跟踪人员的隐私和安全受到威胁。本文提出了基于物理不可克隆功能 (PUF) 的隐私感知识别模块，一种医疗物联网 (IoMT) 架构，用于在拥挤的区域跟踪携带病毒的主机。主机或携带 IoMT 设备的人的隐私和安全被赋予最高优先级，并且正在传输的数据不包含任何与携带设备的人相关的数据。本文还提出了一种新的多密钥 PUF 架构，用于为提议的协议生成唯一的标识密钥。生成密钥所需的平均时间为 1 秒。生成的密钥具有 49.49% 和 48.20% 的唯一性和可靠性。提议的协议独立于通信，这使得它可以跨多个平台进行调整。