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26 June 2020

Research Scientist (Cambridge)
OneSpan
Job Posting Job Posting
OneSpan is seeking applications for highly motivated and self-driven research scientists to complement its Innovation Centre team currently working on cutting-edge research in security, privacy, machine learning and digital identity. The Innovation Centre was established to research and prototype the next generation of digital technologies to improve online security. We seek to make technological advances in areas ranging from OneSpan’s core business of strong authentication, to areas of growing importance such as cybersecurity incidents detection, digital identity and privacy. Our work aims to generate new scientific knowledge, prototypes, and intellectual property that can be transferred into products. We also aspire to be a leading academic-industry partner of choice on emerging technologies related to online security. Job Duties and Responsibilities The objective of the research scientist is to conduct applied research linked to OneSpan’s product range with the aim of enhancing OneSpan’s offering in the short and mid-term. Your key tasks are: Propose research agenda. Perform first-class research. Create research software prototypes that could lead to new products. Show leadership in your field of expertise. Work collaboratively in a team that spans international borders and departments. Requirements Must haves A PhD degree or equivalent experience in information engineering, computer science. Candidates expected to finish their PhD before autumn 2020 will also be considered. Strong proven interest and knowledge of one or more of these research areas: security, machine learning, digital identity, and privacy A willingness to learn and the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar areas of technology. Desirable skills Interest in computer security and machine learning. Some experience in software development. Experience in working in multi-disciplinary teams Authoring reports for and presenting to non-technical audiences. Demonstrated ability to innovate through publications, patents or equivalent

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Julie Tinel

More information: https://grnh.se/a47755df1us

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23 June 2020

Post-doctoral position on blockchains (2 years)
École polytechnique, France
Job Posting Job Posting
Cap Gemini funds a chair « blockchains and B2B platforms » fostering research and teaching at École Polytechnique. The Departments of Computer Science and Economics at École Polytechnique thus welcome applications for a post-doctoral research position in the blockchain domain.

Depending on her/his profile, the chosen candidate will become a member of the cryptography team («Grace», joint with INRIA) at the Department of Computer Science, or of the Department of Economics. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in computer science or in Economics, and have demonstrated great ability in research and teaching. Candidates must present a scientific research project in relation to blockchains.

The mission of the accepted candidate will be to develop research, coordinate with PhD students and researchers, and also support the activities of the chair, by outreaching to the blockchain network in the Paris area, but also worldwide, and by supporting the communication and PR of the chair. If she/he wishes to, the candidate will be able to complement his or her activity by doing lectures, labs and student projects about blockchain platforms.

Through a fast and lightweight process the candidate will be hired from Winter 2020 for two years, which could be extended for two more years after a further review process. The complementary teaching activity, if any, may complement the base salary. Successful candidates will work at Ecole Polytechnique located in Palaiseau, Paris area, France.

Deadline for Application: July 23rd, 2020

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Daniel Augot, Senior researcher, INRIA and École polytechnique. Daniel.Augot@inria.fr

More information: https://blockchain-chair.io/

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Research Associate (Postdoc) in Applied Cryptography
CryptoLux Group, University of Luxembourg
Job Posting Job Posting
The CryptoLux group of the University of Luxembourg invites applications from Ph.D. holders in the general area of applied cryptography. CryptoLux is a group of cryptographers and security researchers interested in applied cryptography, cryptanalysis, privacy, network security, cryptographic blockchains and is led by Prof. Alex Biryukov. Candidates with interest in the following topics are welcome to apply:
  • Design and cryptanalysis of symmetric cryptographic primitives
  • Cryptocurrencies, blockchain
  • Privacy enhancing technologies, Tor
  • Side-channel attacks and countermeasures
  • White-box cryptography
Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or a related field; competitive research record in applied cryptography or information security (at least one paper in top 10 IT security conferences); strong mathematical and algorithmic CS background; fluent written and verbal communication skills in English.

The University offers a two-year employment contract, which may be extended up to five years. The University of Luxembourg offers excellent working conditions and a highly competitive salary. Interested candidates are invited to send their application by email to Alex Biryukov before August 1, 2020. The application should contain a brief cover letter explaining the candidate's research interests, CV with photo, a list of publications and the names and contacts of 3 references.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Prof. Alex Biryukov

More information: https://www.cryptolux.org/index.php/Vacancies

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Lecturer in Cybersecurity
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Job Posting Job Posting
The Department of Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) seeks candidates to fill a University Lecturer/Senior University Lecturer position. Successful candidates must have an MS in Computer Science or a related computing area and will have demonstrated an expert grasp of knowledge of the Cybersecurity field at all levels, either through a demonstrated record of teaching excellence, or through industrial experience.

Candidates are expected to mainly teach courses under the umbrella of Cybersecurity in support of our graduate and undergraduate programs. The successful candidate will also be involved in creating course content and materials with a focus on experiential and project-based learning.

Interested applicants should submit their CV and the names of at least two references by applying as soon as possible at https://njit.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=1&id=1961. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Work environment and location:
The Computer Science department, part of the Ying Wu College of Computing Sciences, is the largest at NJIT, comprising one tenth of the student population. It is also the largest computer science department among all research universities in the New York metropolitan area.​ Located in Northern New Jersey, within the greater New York Metropolitan area, NJIT is part of a vibrant ecosystem of research universities and corporate research centers.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Reza Curtmola

More information: https://njit.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=1&id=1961

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21 June 2020

Fully Funded PhD Position in Privacy-Preserving & Robust Machine Learning
University of Lübeck, Institute of IT-Security, Privacy & Security Group, Lübeck, Germany
Job Posting Job Posting
The Privacy & Security group at University of Luebeck seeks to hire doctoral students for research in the one or more of the following areas:
  • enhancing or attacking training-data-privacy in machine learning algorithms
  • ensuring or attacking the robustness of machine learning algorithms
  • privacy-preserving health applications (including epidemiological applications)
  • privacy-preserving Smart Grid, Smart City applications
  • anonymous communication
The ideal candidate is enthusiastic and has a strong background and interest in one or more of the following areas:
  • information security, differential privacy, or cryptography
  • mathematical statistics and probability theory
  • machine learning
Candidates with a strong theoretical background in related areas are also encouraged to apply. Formal requirements for doctoral students are a master's or equivalent degree. The doctoral student will be a paid employee of University of Lübeck according to standard collective labour agreement regulations (TV-L E13, 100%), which compared to the local cost of living provides an attractive salary and attractive working conditions.

Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a brief description of research interests, transcripts of grades, 2-3 letters of recommendation from teachers or employers, and, if possible, the Master's or Bachelor's thesis and publications.
  • Application deadline: 30 August 2020 (later applications might also be considered)
  • Starting date: 1 October 2020 (negotiable)
About our group: The Privacy & Security group at the Institute for IT-security at the University of Lübeck works on researching privacy-preserving and robust methods to perform computations on large datasets such that the system work as expected and privacy of individuals is protected, including privacy-preserving machine learning, and anonymous communication.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Prof. Dr. Esfandiar Mohammadi
Privacy & Security group
University of Lübeck
https://mohammadi.eu

More information: https://www.its.uni-luebeck.de/fileadmin/files/jobs/privsec_open_positions.pdf

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Two PhD positions in Privacy-preserving biometric authentication
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Job Posting Job Posting
The PhD students will join Prof. Mitrokotsa's group focusing on security and cryptography, working in the area of privacy-preserving biometric authentication and within the Marie Curie ITN project: "TRESPASS-ETN: Training in Secure and Privacy-preserving biometrics". Privacy-preserving biometric authentication focuses on guaranteeing accurate biometric authentication, while at the same time providing strong privacy guarantees (e.g., avoid tracking, profiling of users and leakage of sensitive information). The focus of one of the PhD positions would be to examine how to guarantee privacy-preservation in biometric authentication systems by employing advanced cryptographic methods such as secure multiparty computation (SMPC) primitives (e.g., homomorphic encryption) and verifiable computation (when biometric authentication is applied in a distributed setting). The second PhD position will focus on employing differentially private mechanisms in the biometric authentication process. The goal is to achieve high accuracy in the authentication process, while at the same time avoid any leakage of information. The PhD student will be supervised by Prof. Katerina Mitrokotsa in the area of information security and cryptography.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Prof. Katerina Mitrokotsa

More information: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=p8404

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17 June 2020

Software Developer for Payment Systems
Be ys Pay France
Job Posting Job Posting
About be-ys

Be-ys creates and monitors digital solutions for sensitive data processing in demanding business sectors such as healthcare and banking.
We are the national leader in data security, which is expanding internationally and deploying its solutions using state-of-the-art technologies.
We are now looking for new talents to strengthen our leading position and continue bringing innovation to the market.

Job Description

Our Be ys Pay subsidiary has created worldwide payment solutions. Our aim is to develop disruptive technologies for bank payment systems with smart card, mobile device and Blockchain. As part of its development, we are looking for a Software Developer for Payment Systems.
As part of an expert team dedicated to the payment technology, smart card, blockchain, cryptography and cryptography business sectors, your main tasks will be to develop products in C, C++, Java and NodeJS languages for smart card personalization, payment transaction authorization, token generation/validation and wallets for mobile devices.
You will be responsible for the development and implementation of algorithms, protocols and applications for PC or mobile devices for smart card issuance, as well as the development of solutions for the validation and generation of tokens for banking payment systems.

Profile description

• You have a 5-year degree in engineering, development and/or crypto
• You have an excellent knowledge of C, C++, Java and cryptography.
• Knowledge of payment technology with EMV standard and Blockchain would be a plus.
• You enjoy working as part of a team and working collaboratively in an agile mode.
• You are autonomous, proactive and have an interest in experimenting.
• You like innovation and enjoy working in a constantly changing environment.
• You must be fluent in English (written and spoken).

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Above all, we are looking for potential. We believe that passion for the job and skills are the key to a successful employee.
We transform your energy into talent.
To apply, please send your resume to: recrutement@almerys.com

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Ph.D. Student
Grenoble INP LCIS
Job Posting Job Posting
Securing components for the IoT market, as well as critical cyberphysical infrastructures, requires analyzing their vulnerabilities and defining hardware and software countermeasures at the fair cost. The increasing complexity of the processors and the applications they run means that the software fault models (such as instruction skips, or instruction replacement) usually used to analyze the vulnerability of their code are no longer sufficient to express the diversity of faulty behaviors in modern architectures [1]. Indeed, architecture designers have progressively added many complex hardware blocks (such as pipeline, cache memory, branch prediction, or speculative execution) to processors in order to optimize program execution. At the same time, fault injection techniques are constantly progressing (e.g., localized ElectroMagnetic or laser attacks, glitch injection attacks) allowing today higher-order injections (both multi-temporal and multi-spatial). Faced with these attacks, designers must implement countermeasures to detect or mask the effects of injected faults. These countermeasures can be implemented at the hardware level (e.g., duplication of elements, error correcting codes, isolation mechanisms) or at the software level (e.g., duplication of instructions or algorithms, insertion of security tests, signature verification). The design and validation of these countermeasures requires a realistic representation of the effects of faulty attacks (fault model) at the hardware and/or software level. The difficulties encountered are then: (1) the relevance of the fault models: do these fault models correctly represent the effects that an attacker can generate on a target processor? (2) the adequacy of countermeasures: do the countermeasures effectively protect the system, are they oversized and therefore too costly? (3) the link between software and hardware countermeasures: how to combine software and hardware countermeasures efficiently and at the fair cost, how to link the different levels for fault modeling? The CLAM project and the thesis that we propose aim to answer these questions by associating 3 French laboratories with complementary specialties.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: vincent.beroulle(at)lcis.grenoble-inp.fr; paolo.maistri(at)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

More information: https://lcis.grenoble-inp.fr/medias/fichier/clam-thesis-subject-lcis-valence-en-_1592239520450-pdf?ID_FICHE=559219&INLIN

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Associate Professor
Uppsala University
Job Posting Job Posting
The Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University invites applications for an Associate Professor in Computer Science with specialization in Cybersecurity The department hosts many successful research efforts on different aspects of cybersecurity, which have attracted a significant amount of external funding. We are now in the process to establish cybersecurity as a strong and visible area in research and teaching. The holder of the position is expected to develop a teaching and research profile in cybersecurity, as well as to take leadership responsibilities in cybersecurity activities within the department. Application Deadline: June 22.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Christian Rohner (christian.rohner@it.uu.se)

More information: https://uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=325568

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PhD Student
Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Job Posting Job Posting
The new-age processor is going to require hardware-oriented solutions as a primary design criterion for the security against threats. Alternative computational architectures proposed in recent years drive this idea by the inclusion of multi-value logic operations. The realization of multi-value logic gates and testing the advantages of polymorphic inputs and outputs of a circuit, however, remains elusive due to the existing technology gap. In this project, we put forward a new logic-locking framework that will allow us to incorporate multi-value and multi-layer logic with existing CMOS-based logic-locking architectures. Enabling future-generation processors with BioNanoLock is the prime target of the project with small (10-100 logic gates) to medium-sized (100-10000 logic gates) circuits as an intermediate goal. We also envision developing heterogeneous integrated systems for secure information processing in the long-term. In BioNanoLock, an encoded DNA sequence acts as a secret ‘biological activation-key’. This key is molecularly recognized as a unique and secret pattern of key-gates (called biological key-gates) or activates them. This, in turn, enables the CMOS-based key-gates in the logic-locked circuit with the appropriate key value. Different voltage-levels in the multi-valued logic define the “on” or “off” state of the key-gates, thereby adding another level of ambiguity for an attacker and making it harder for the attacker to unlock the circuit. Moving away from the classical CMOS-based techniques for logic locking, the BioNanoLock project enables the researchers to delve into novel logic locking techniques. The project also provides opportunities to map the new logic locking paradigms and attack methodologies to a different class of problems in the complexity theory. As novel simulation methodologies are unexplored in the interdisciplinary domain, the project provides ample opportunities for research and innovation.

Closing date for applications:

Contact: Dr. Farhad Merchant (farhad.merchant@ice.rwth-aachen.de)

More information: https://www.ice.rwth-aachen.de/institute/jobs/job-offer-research-assistant-phd-student-for-bionanolock-project-1/

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10 June 2020

Project Scientist
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (Workplace: IIT Bhilai, Raipur)
Job Posting Job Posting
Project: Building end to end 5G Test Bed
Work Sub-area:
  • Lightweight Cryptography including authentication protocols
  • Secure boot mechanisms for edge devices
    Funding Agency: Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT)
    Tentative Duration: Upto:31/03/2021


    Qualifications:

  • B. Tech. (with GATE qualification) / M.Sc. (with NET/SET qualification) / M.C.A. (with GATE* qualification) 1st class or equivalent in the appropriate discipline.


    Desirables:

    Basic knowledge of cryptography or some experience with using RFID tags or experience on some Raspberry based project or using Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs)

    Note: *The requirement of qualifying NET/SET/GATE qualification may be relaxed by the Committee in case of highly meritorious candidates.

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact:
    Dr. Dhiman Saha,
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
    Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai.
    email: dhiman [at] iitbhilai [dot] ac [in]

    For more info about the research group and other opportunities visit group site: http://de.ci.phe.red

    More information: http://ird.iitd.ac.in/sites/default/files/jobs/project/IITD-IRD-085-2020..pdf

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    08 June 2020

    Symmetric Cryptography Researcher
    Technology Innovation Institute - Abu Dhabi, UAE
    Job Posting Job Posting

    Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a publicly funded research institute, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is home to a diverse community of leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and researchers from across the globe, transforming problems and roadblocks into pioneering research and technology prototypes that help move society ahead. At TII, we help society to overcome its biggest hurdles through a rigorous approach to scientific discovery and inquiry, using state-of-the-art facilities and collaboration with leading international institutions

    As a Symmetric Cryptography Researcher, you will:

  • Design and implement symmetric cryptographic algorithms on software.
  • Conduct research in the field of symmetric cryptography and lightweight cryptography
  • Perform security assessments of cryptographic primitives at theoretical and implementation level.
  • Work closely with the other R&D teams to build secure systems using state-of-the-art cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

    Minimum qualifications:

  • PhD degree in one of the following: Cryptography, Applied Cryptography, Information theory, Mathematics, Computer Science or any relevant Engineering degree.
  • Valuable publications record in the field of Symmetric Cryptography.
  • Knowledge of relevant theoretical and practical cryptanalysis techniques.
  • Extensive experience developing in C, C++, x86 or ARM assembly, Rust or Go.
  • Understanding of security attacks, including: timing, cache-based and microarchitectural attacks, and the corresponding countermeasures.

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact: Mehdi Messaoudi - Talent Acquisition Partner

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    Lead Cryptographic Protocols Researcher
    Technology Innovation Institute - Abu Dhabi, UAE
    Job Posting Job Posting
    As a Lead Cryptographic Protocols Researcher, you will:

  • Lead the scientific watch specialized in cryptographic protocols
  • Guide the team members in their research and development work
  • Analyze project requirements and provide technical and functional recommendations
  • Design and implement classical, quantum-resistant and hybrid cryptographic protocols and algorithms
  • Conduct research and development on state-of-the-art modern protocols
  • Perform security assessments of cryptographic protocols at the theoretical and implementation level

    Minimum Qualifications:

  • MSc or PhD degree in Cryptography, Applied Cryptography, Information Theory, Mathematics or Computer Science
  • 6+ years of work experience. Previous experience heading teams is a plus
  • Knowledge of widely-deployed cryptographic protocols and primitives
  • Experience in C desired, C++, Rust or Go relevant as well
  • Solid engineering practices and processes, such as development and testing methodology and documentation
  • Prior contributions to crypto protocols and open source software collaboration preferred
  • Quick learner, geared towards implementation
  • Eager to develop new skills and willing to take ownership of projects

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact: Mehdi Messaoudi - Talent Acquisition Partner

    More information: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tiiuae/about/

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    Ph. D student in Post-Quantum Cryptography
    ISAE SUPAERO, Toulouse, France
    Job Posting Job Posting

    In late 2016, NIST issued a call for proposals for the standardization of cryptographic systems resistant to a quantum computer for encryption, key exchange and signature primitives (hereafter NIST PQC). The standardization process is currently ending its second phase, with only 26 candidates remaining.

    Each submission comes with a software implementation, targeting standard security levels for widespread applications, such as e-commerce.

    Topic 1: General improvement of post-quantum primitives

    During this thesis, the successful candidate will study the NIST PQC submissions still running for standardization and will propose modifications that improve the submissions in general (e.g. tighter reductions, improved theoretical error rate analysis, etc.), or that provide specific advantages in constrained settings (e.g. soft/hard implementation simplicity, reduced bandwidth, reduced latency, etc.).

    Topic 2: Hardware implementations of cryptographic schemes based on error-correcting codes and/or lattices

    The software performance of NIST PQC submissions has been thoroughly studied. On the other hand, the hardware performance (e.g. energy cost or gate cost on broadly available FPGAs) of many submissions is still not very well understood. During this thesis, the successful candidate will study code-based and/or lattice-based NIST PQC submissions, and propose hardware implementations of both the original submisssions and variations designed by the candidate to improve hardware performance.

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact: Carlos Aguilar Melchor

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    Post Quantum Cryptography Researcher
    Technology Innovation Institute - Abu Dhabi, UAE
    Job Posting Job Posting

    As a Post-Quantum Crypto Researcher, you will:

  • Design and implement quantum-safe PKE/KEM and digital signature schemes.
  • Conduct research and development in one of the following: lattice-based cryptography, code-based cryptography, hash-based cryptography, isogeny-based cryptography
  • Perform security assessments of crypto-primitives and cryptosystems at the theoretical and implementation level

    Minimum qualifications:

  • MSc or PhD degree in Cryptography, Applied Cryptography, Information Theory, Mathematics or Computer Science
  • Extensive experience developing in C, C++, Rust or Go
  • Deep understanding of cryptographic algorithms and protocols
  • Understanding of security attacks, including: side-channel analysis, fault injection, microarchitectural attacks, and the corresponding countermeasures
  • Familiarity with hardware languages is a plus

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact: Mehdi Messaoudi - Talent Acquisition Partner

    More information: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tiiuae/about/

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    30 May 2020

    Postdoc Research Fellow x3
    Cryptanalysis Taskforce @ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    Job Posting Job Posting

    (Yes ! We are still hiring despite COVID-19)

    The Cryptanalysis Taskforce at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore led by Prof. Jian Guo is seeking for candidates to fill 3 postdoctoral research fellow positions on symmetric-key cryptography, including but not limited to the following sub-areas:
    • privacy-preserving friendly symmetric-key designs
    • tool aided cryptanalysis, such as MILP, CP, STP, and SAT
    • machine learning aided cryptanalysis and designs
    • quantum cryptanalysis
    • cryptanalysis against SHA-3 and AES
    Established in 2014, the Cryptanalysis Taskforce is a group dedicated for research in symmetric-key cryptography. Since then, the team has been active in both publications in and services for IACR. It has done quite some cryptanalysis work on various important targets such as SHA-3, and is expanding its interests to the areas mentioned above, with strong funding support from the university and government agencies in Singapore. We offer competitive salary package with extremely low tax, as well as an environment dedicated for research in Singapore. The contract will be initially for 2 years, and has the possibility to be extended. Candidates are expected to have proven record of publications in IACR conferences. Interested candidates are to send their CV and 2 reference letters to Jian Guo. Review of applicants will start immediately until the positions are filled. More information about the Cryptanalysis Taskforce research group can be found via http://team.crypto.sg

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact: Asst Prof. Jian Guo, guojian@ntu.edu.sg

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    Post-Doc
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Job Posting Job Posting
    Applications are invited for a post-doc position at Carnegie Mellon University. The specific topic of the research is flexible and will be determined based on the common interests. Samples areas include secure multi-party computation, zero-knowledge proofs, post-quantum/lattice-based cryptography, and non-malleable cryptography. Must have a strong track record of publications in top crypto conferences.

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact: Vipul Goyal (vipul at cmu.edu)

    More information: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~goyal/

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    Post-Doctoral Researcher in Symmetric Cryptography
    CryptoLux Group, University of Luxembourg
    Job Posting Job Posting

    The CryptoLux group of the University of Luxembourg has a vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher in the area of symmetric cryptography. The successful candidate will contribute to a research project entitled "Analysis and Protection of Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms (APLICA)", which is funded by the Luxembourgish Fonds National de la Recherche and the German Research Foundation. Starting in Fall 2020, APLICA will run over a period of 3 years as a joint research project between the CryptoLux group and the Workgroup for Symmetric Cryptography of Ruhr-University Bochum. The mission of the APLICA project is to develop new cryptanalytic techniques for lightweight authenticated encryption algorithms and hash functions, and to design and implement new countermeasures against side-channel attacks that are suitable for constrained devices.

    Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree in symmetric cryptography or a closely related field. Preference will be given to candidates with a strong publication record that includes at least one paper at an IACR-sponsored conference/workshop or one of the top-4 security conferences. Experience in software development for embedded systems or mounting side-channel attacks is a plus. Candidates with an interest to conduct research in one of the following areas are particularly encouraged to apply:

    • Cryptanalysis of authenticated encryption algorithms or hash functions
    • Leakage resilience or leakage reduction by design (e.g. modes of operation)
    • Security evaluation of leakage-resilient primitives or constructions

    The position is available from Sept. 2020 on basis of a fixed-term contract for 3 years, which includes a probation period of 6 months. The University of Luxembourg offers excellent working conditions and a highly competitive salary. Interested candidates are invited to send their application by email to Alex Biryukov before June 15, 2020. The application material should contain a cover letter explaining the candidate's research interests, a detailed CV (including photo), a list of publications, scans of diploma certificates, and the names and contact details of 3 referenc

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact: Prof. Alex Biryukov (alex.biryukov@uni.lu)

    More information: https://www.fnr.lu/projects/analysis-and-protection-of-lightweight-cryptographic-algorithms/

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    27 May 2020

    Open PhD position in Memristors-based Cryptography
    University of Stuttgart, Germany
    Job Posting Job Posting
    The Institute for Computer Architecture and Computer Engineering (ITI) at the University of Stuttgart seeks applications for a research position for the recently approved DFG project MEMCRYPTO in the field of memristor-based cryptography. The objective of the project is to explore novel memristive devices and architectures on their basis for construction of secure cryptographic hardware blocks, such as block ciphers. The project, which is part of DFG’s new Priority Program “Nano Security” (SPP 2253), will involve a tight collaboration with a research group in material science at TU Chemnitz capable of manufacturing and testing memristive devices and circuits. The position is suitable for PhD candidates, yet interested candidates who already hold a PhD degree can be employed as well. Located in Stuttgart, one of Europe’s main economic hubs, the Institute offers you an inspiring working atmosphere in a successful international team. The remuneration is according to the German public-service salary grade TV-L E13. Part-time employment, or a combination with a teaching-assistant position associated with a teaching load, are possible. To qualify for this position, you need an above-average Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline. Moreover, we expect proven skills or experiences in at least one of the three areas listed below (and credible interest in the other two): 1. Design of digital circuits, including their specification in Verilog or VHDL, synthesis for ASIC or FPGA, simulation on different levels of abstraction. 2. Cryptography, ideally with a focus on resilience of cryptographic implementations against physical attacks (side-channel analysis, fault-injections). 3. Memristive technologies, e.g., modeling or simulation of memristive behavior, synthesis of circuits in memristive logic families. To apply, please send, by email, your cover letter (explicitly explaining your interest in the topic and pointing out which of the three above-mentioned areas you feel competent in), CV and scans of your Master’s and Bachelor’s degree certificates including the transcripts with all grades.

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact: Ilia Polian

    More information: https://spp-nanosecurity.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/

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    25 May 2020

    PhD Student in Principled countermeasures against microarchitectural attacks
    IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid (Spain)
    Job Posting Job Posting

    Applications are invited for multiple PhD student positions at the IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain.

    Selected candidates will work under the supervision of Marco Guarnieri on the design, verification, and implementation of countermeasures against CPU micro-architectural attacks.

    The specific topic of the research will be determined based on the common interests of the candidate and the supervisor.

    The positions are fully funded by a research grant from Intel Corporation.

    How to apply?

    Applicants interested in the position should submit their application at https://careers.software.imdea.org/ selecting option 5 - PhD Student and reference code 2020-05-phd-uarchsec.

    Questions

    For any questions about these positions, please contact Marco Guarnieri directly (marco dot guarnieri at imdea dot org).

    Closing date for applications:

    Contact:

    Marco Guarnieri, Assistant Professor @ IMDEA Software

    Email: marco dot guarnieri at imdea dot org

    Website: https://mguarnieri.github.io

    More information: https://software.imdea.org/open_positions/2020-05-phd-uarchsec.html

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