New machine learning methods applied to side-channel attacks

Thesis topic details

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-25-0600  

Direction

DRT

Thesis topic details

Category

Technological challenges

Thesis topics

New machine learning methods applied to side-channel attacks

Contract

Thèse

Job description

Products secured by embedded cryptographic mechanisms may be vulnerable to side-channel attacks. Such attacks are based on the observation of some physique quantities measured during the device activity, whose variation may provoke information leakage and lead to a security flaw.
Today, such attacks are improved, even in presence of specific countermeasures, by deep learning based methods.
The goal of this thesis is go get familiarity with semi-supervised and self-supervised Learning state-of-the-art and adapt promising methods to the context of the side-channel attacks, in order to improve performances of the attacks in very complex scenarios. A particular attention will be given to attacks against secure implementations of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms.

University / doctoral school

Sciences, Ingénierie, Santé (EDSIS)
Université de Lyon

Thesis topic location

Site

Grenoble

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2025

Person to be contacted by the applicant

CAGLI Eleonora eleonora.cagli@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DSYS/SSSEC/CESTI

0438783131

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

BOSSUET Lilian lilian.bossuet@univ-st-etienne.fr
Université de Saint-Etienne
Département Informatique Telecom&Image
Laboratoire Hubert Curien, UMR CNRS 5516, Université Jean Monnet
0477915792

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https://www.leti-cea.fr/cea-tech/leti/Pages/recherche-appliquee/infrastructures-de-recherche/plateforme-cybersecurite.aspx