General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-24-0663
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
Trusted imager: integrated security based on physically unclonable functions
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Images, and therefore the sensors that generate them, must respond to the challenges posed by their illicit use, either to divert their content through deep fakes, or for unauthorized access. The concept of trusted imagers responds to the need to ensure the security, authentication or encryption of images as soon as they are acquired.
Based on our first developments, the thesis will consist of searching for innovative solutions to integrate security functions into imagers. Faced with the challenges of robustness and compact integrability, the thesis aims to explore the use of physically non-clonable functions within an image sensor.
After improving the required skills, based in particular on a bibliographical study, and depending on the candidate's interests, the work will consist of:
- Develop compact circuit models in Python to identify and test physically non-clonable functions,
- Validate the proposed physically non-clonable function structures and their associated encryptions
- Analyze their robustness
- Design and simulate integrated circuits corresponding to these functions
With the objective of creating an integrated circuit, the work will take place, within CEA-Léti, with integrated circuit design and software development tools.
University / doctoral school
Physique et Ingénierie: électrons, photons et sciences du vivant (EOBE)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Grenoble
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2024
Person to be contacted by the applicant
DUPRET Antoine antoine.dupret@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DOPT/SISP/L3I
CEA-List
Centre de Saclay-Nano-Innov Bât 862 PC 172
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex - France
+33(0)169080735
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
DUPRET Antoine antoine.dupret@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DOPT/SISP/L3I
CEA-List
Centre de Saclay-Nano-Innov Bât 862 PC 172
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex - France
+33(0)169080735
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