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