[HGI-News] WG: Postdoct position in Lyon / Hardware and cryptography

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Gruss, Christof Paar

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Prof. Christof Paar
Chair for Communication Security
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Information Sciences
Ruhr-University Bochum
44780 Bochum, Germany
www.crypto.rub.de

mobile phone: 0170 790 3393


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Von: Gilles Villard [mailto:Gilles.Villard at ens-lyon.fr] 
Gesendet: Montag, 19. Juli 2004 13:13
An: Arnaud TISSERAND
Betreff: Postdoct position in Lyon / Hardware and cryptography 

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, CRYPTOGRAPHY
AND HARDWARE ARITHMETIC OPERATORS, INRIA FRANCE  

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Arnaud Tisserand and Gilles Villard
{Arnaud.Tisserand,Gilles.Villard}@ens-lyon.fr
Arenaire project
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Arenaire
(CNRS/ENSL/INRIA/UCBL)

Laboratoire LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure,
46 Allee d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07 France
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Within a collaboration with CEA  (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique) /
LETI
(Laboratoire  d'Electronique Technologies  et Instrumentation),  the
INRIA
project Arenaire offers a 12 months postdoc position.

** Objectives

Last years have seen major investments in public-key cryptography
research.
Indeed,  new commercial cryptographic products  rely on very high
ciphering
speed. Also, technology  evolution    with always faster  processors
for
breaking codes leads to   consider longer  keys for  preserving
security.
These two aspects show  that   efficiency of cryptographic  algorithms
is
crucial  issue  nowadays.   The design  of hardware   implementations is
an
important point for providing new solutions.  In collaboration with
several
other groups  (ACI Cryptologie ---
http://www.lirmm.fr/~bajard/ACI_CRYPTO
--- and ACI  Securite Informatique ---
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/OCAM),
one    of the research directions of    the  Arenaire project addresses
the
question with the study of hardware dedicated arithmetic operators.

The object    of this postdoctoral  position  is  to   participate to
these
research with the  design  and  implementation of number
representations,
associated algorithms,  and cryptographic functionalities.   For
instance it
may concern hardware realizations, on  FPGA circuits, for finite fields
and
elliptic   curves arithmetic in   the   context of ciphering or
code-based
digital signature.  Our long-range objective, together with the
development
of an  experimental  platform for   best  software and   hardware
solutions
comparizon,  it to offer  a  complete hardware  demonstrator usable  by
any
standard computer.

** Arenaire project.

Arenaire is a   project of 16  researchers  which aims  at  elaborating
and
consolidating knowledge in the field of computer arithmetic.  We
contribute
to the improvement  of the available arithmetic, at  the hardware level
as
well  as at  the software  level,  on  computers, processors, dedicated
or
embedded chips, etc.  Reliability, accuracy, and speed are major goals
that
drive our studies.   We also take into   account other constraints  such
as
power   consumption,   certification  using   formal   proof  techniques
or
reliability of   numerical  software.   Target  arithmetics  are   fixed
or
floating point format,  interval arithmetic,  finite fields arithmetic
and
multiple precision.


** Skills and applications  

Candidates should  have skills  in the  domain of cryptographic
algorithms.
Knowledge in  hardware design, for  instance using VHDL  for FPGAs, will
be
appreciated.

Interested   candidates should    contact    or send  files    directly
to
{Arnaud.Tisserand,  Gilles.Villard}@ens-lyon.fr  as soon  as possible.
The
final selection should happen end September 2004.  Files must contain a
cv,
a brief description of research work and recommendation letters.
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