PhD in effective and scalable tools against side-channel attacks

Updated: 12 days ago
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 31 May 2024

4 May 2024
Job Information
Organisation/Company

Vrije Univeriteit Amsterdam
Department

Computer Science
Research Field

Computer science » Programming
Computer science » Computer hardware
Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)
Country

Netherlands
Application Deadline

31 May 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Type of Contract

Temporary
Job Status

Full-time
Hours Per Week

38
Offer Starting Date

1 Sep 2024
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

HE / ERC
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The theory and security groups at VU Amsterdam welcome applications for a fully-funded, 4-year PhD supervised by Kristina Sojakova and Klaus von Gleissenthall . The PhD research will focus on developing effective and scalable tools against side-channel attacks, with a focus on hardware. This position is partially funded through an ERC starting grant.

Your PhD research will focus on developing effective tools to guard against side-channel attacks. In hardware, an attacker can measure certain physical quantities such as the time elapsed or the power consumed during a computation to recover a surprising amount of secrets. Such attacks are easy to implement, difficult to detect, and powerful against strong encryption mechanisms. What's worse, they have become much more dangerous with the discovery of microarchitectural attacks like Spectre, Meltdown, and Hertzbleed, which allow attackers to break through traditional isolation barriers using details of the processor's microarchitecture.

As part of the PhD research, we will combine insights from cryptoanalysis with techniques from programming languages and type systems to build secure hardware that withstands sophisticated attacks. The goal is to build new open-source secure hardware and publish papers at top conferences in security, programming languages, and computer architecture.

More information at:

https://workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-in-effective-and-scalable-tools-against-side-channel-attacks-amsterdam-1064918


Requirements
Research Field
Computer science » Programming
Education Level
Master Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications
  • experience with concepts from programming languages, formal methods, 
    functional programming, or hardware design

Research Field
Computer science » ProgrammingComputer science » Computer hardware

Additional Information
Website for additional job details

https://workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-in-effective-and-scalable-tools-against-s…

Work Location(s)
Number of offers available
1
Company/Institute
VU Amsterdam
Country
Netherlands
City
Amsterdam
Geofield


Where to apply
Website

https://workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-in-effective-and-scalable-tools-against-s…

Contact
City

Amsterdam
Website

https://workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-in-effective-and-scalable-tools-against-side-channel-attacks-amsterdam-1064918
Street

De Boelelaan 1081a
E-Mail

[email protected]

STATUS: EXPIRED

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