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The disclosed embodiments are related to the generation of a personal identifier within a memory device. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising generating an asymmetric key pair from a physically unclonable function (PUF), the asymmetric key pair including a public key and a private key; generating a certificate signing request (CSR) for the public key, the CSR including a user identifier and a customer public key; requesting a digital certificate of the public key from a certificate authority (CA), the certificate authority storing a mapping between the customer public key and the user identifier; receiving a message from a host device; signing the message using the private key; and transmitting the signed message and the digital certificate to a computing device.