Organisation/Company: Université Grenoble Alpes
Research Field: Other
Researcher Profile: Recognised Researcher (R2), Leading Researcher (R4), First Stage Researcher (R1), Established Researcher (R3)
Country: France
Application Deadline: 21 Sep 2027 - 22:00 (UTC)
Type of Contract: Temporary
Job Status: Full-time
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description This Ph.D. thesis takes place in the general context of cyber-security in embedded systems. The research background of this thesis is tied to the automatic application of counter-measures against so-called physical attacks: observation attacks (side-channel attacks) and perturbation attacks (fault-injection attacks).
The goal of this thesis is to bring new formal guarantees about the functional correctness of the secured programs, i.e., that non-functional changes (application of counter-measures) do not alter the functional behaviour of the original program.
The work will be structured around the two following research tools:
BINSEC, an open-source platform for automatic reasoning on safety and security properties at the binary level;
COGITO, a compiler toolchain based on LLVM for automated application of software counter-measures against physical attacks.
We seek to formally demonstrate that an optimized and hardened binary program is functionally equivalent to the original, non-hardened one. To do so, we aim to develop a sound and exhaustive symbolic reasoning supported by and integrated in the BINSEC platform. The work will consider COGITO counter-measures of incremental complexity with respect to the research objectives.
You will be hosted at the CEA in Saclay or Grenoble, in a multidisciplinary environment including experts in embedded software, cyber-security, hardware design, and machine learning. Stays at the DILS at the CEA in Saclay will be planned throughout the three years of the thesis to collaborate with experts and developers of BINSEC.
The position is fully funded.
Début de la thèse: 01/10/2024
WEB: https://binsec.github.io/
Funding category: Autres financements
Keywords: program analysis, formal methods, symbolic execution.
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