STMicroelectronics
WHY JOIN US
At ST, we are 48,000 men and women designers and manufacturers of microelectronic technologies. We collaborate with 100,000 customers and thousands of partners. With them, we design and create products, solutions and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities and the need to contribute to a more sustainable world. Our advanced technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient energy and power management, and large-scale deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G.
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OUR FUTURE COLLABORATION
With the growing pervasion of electronics in applications such as Internet of Things (IoT) or automotive electronics, embedded security in such devices is a key element to ensure trust and to protect the devices and the user privacy.
Within an R&D team specializing in embedded systems security, the objective of this internship is to benchmark the performances and the robustness of the main Advanced Encryption Standard implementations base on threshold Implementations such as the ones introduced in [NRR06].
These implementations are known to be robust against the most challenging first order side channel attacks.
Side channel attacks exploit the physical leakage resulting from the interactions of the component and its environment during the execution of its embedded operation. An attacker will exploit these leaks which can for example be the consumption of the component or its electromagnetic emissions to find secret data. Indeed, there are links between these leaks and the variables manipulated by the algorithms. These attacks represent a real threat against on-board systems. In order to keep protected against this, countermeasures such as the one based on threshold Implementations have been developed.
The random sharing based on threshold implementation is one of the mathematically proven countermeasures proposed in the literature.
The intern will start its work by a bibliographic step while (s)he will acquire a better comprehension of the main countermeasures based on threshold implementation proposed in the literature. In a second step, the intern will translate the countermeasures into a synthesizable hardware description language in order to compare their performances and their security robustness.
[NRR06] S. Nikova, C. Rechberger, and V. Rijmen. Threshold implementations against side-channel attacks and glitches. In P. Ning, S. Qing,and N. Li, editors, ICICS 06, volume 4307 of LNCS, pages 529{545. Springer, Heidelberg, Dec. 2006.
YOUR PROFILE
You are in your last year of engineering school or university, with a specialization in mathematics or IT or electronics.
Language: high-level (Python, Ruby…) and hardware-level (Vhdl, Verilog …)
Basic knowledge in cryptography is a plus
Abstract thinking and objective outlook
Proactivity, autonomy and teamwork
OUR SITE
In Rousset, we are more than 3000 employees with 30 different nationalities. Our site offers a wide range of professions, thus offering many prospects for internal development. At the foot of the Sainte Victoire, 20kms from Aix-en-Provence and 40kms from Marseille, the Rousset site combines technological excellence, respect for the environment and quality of life.
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