Rust for embedded and SCA: compiler analysis internship

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YOUR ROLE 

One of the main challenges in developing security functionalities for embedded devices is to provide robustness against so-called Side-Channel Attacks (SCA), a class of threats that exploit the information leakage coming from observation of chip's physical quantities, like power consumption or electro-magnetic field. While it is possible to write software resistant to this class of attacks, it is important to check that the compiler's optimizations don't remove any countermeasures based on redundancies.

RUST is a quite new programming language that can target embedded systems Firmware development, becoming a good candidate for replacing older and less safe languages as C. The main objective of the internship is to analyze if this language can target countermeasures against SCAs development, in particular studying the RUST compiler code optimization techniques.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCES

• Master degree student in Computer Science or Engineering
• Good knowledge of C and Rust programming languages
• Experience on embedded systems programming. Knowledge of STM32 microcontroller family is a plus
• Fluent English

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