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PHISIC 2019

Every 18 months, the SAS department organizes the PHISIC Workshop.

Last workshops: October 15–16, 2019.

The PHISIC Workshop aims to provide an environment for exchange among academic and industrial experts in embedded security. More specifically, we aim to:

  • contribute to and share ideas on the latest trends in academic research, collaborative projects, and industrial challenges
  • identify future security trends
  • exchange on advanced practices in physical attacks (fault injection and side-channel analysis) and effective protection schemes
  • discuss the security features of systems (IoT networks, cyber-physical systems, etc.)

PHISIC addresses several hardware security topics, such as:

  • Side-channel & fault injection attacks
  • SW and HW protections against physical threats
  • Emerging technologies for secure devices
  • Machine learning & security
  • Security assessment and verification: leakage assessment, formal verification, etc.
  • Security challenges for IoT and mobile devices
  • Cryptographic algorithms and related implementations: lightweight crypto, post-quantum, ECC, etc.
  • Remote physical attacks
  • Other topics of interest related to hardware security
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Doctoral Students’ Day

    2023

    Doctoral Students’ Day 2023

    June 19, 2023 in Gardanne, Aix-Marseille-Provence campus.

    8:30 AMWelcome
    9:15 AMOpening of the day
    Presentations by 1st-year PhD students
    9:30 AMCôme ALLART
    Performance modelling of the RISC-V CVA6 core using cycle-accurate simulation
    9:45 AMHafsa EL ALAMI
    Characterization and development of countermeasures against contactless probing techniques for secure integrated circuits
    10:00 AMAntonio RAS
    Secure, Optimised and Agile HW/SW Implementation for Post-quantum Cryptography
    Presentations by 2nd-year PhD students
    10:15 AMLouis NOYEZ
    Hardware acceleration of modular multiplication and AMNS arithmetic.
    10:35 AMCoffee break
    11:05 AMThéophile GOUSSELOT
    Lightweight Countermeasures Against Original Linear Code Extraction Attacks on a RISC-V Core
    11:25 AMRodrigo SILVA LIMA
    Light Leakage: Retrieving sensitive information from Microcontrollers with Photoemission Analysis
    11:45 AMKevin CARTA
    How video injection attacks can even challenge state-of-the-art face Presentation Attack Detection systems
    12:05 PMLunch
    1:35 PMClément FANJAS
    Exploration of System-on-Chip Secure-Boot Vulnerability to Fault-Injection by Side-Channel Analysis
    1:55 PMPaul GRANDAMME
    X-Ray Fault Injection on Power OFF Devices.
    Presentations by 3rd-year PhD students
    2:15 PMFrançois BONNAL
    Software-only Control-Flow Integrity against Fault Injection Attacks
    2:40 PMKevin HECTOR
    Fault injection and integrity of embedded neural networks: attacks, protections, evaluation
    3:05 PMCoffee break
    3:35 PMRoukoz NABHAN
    Securing the IoT against Fault Injection Attacks using Digital Sensors
    4:00 PMRaphaël JOUD
    Side-channel attack against the confidentiality of embedded machine learning models
    4:25 PMNathan ROUSSEL
    Design, characterization, and protection of lightweight cryptographic building blocks through CMOS/MRAM hybridization
    4:30 PMEnd of the day

    Contacts

    2022

    Doctoral Students’ Day 2022

    June 17, 2022 in Gardanne, Aix-Marseille-Provence campus

    8:30 AMHome
    8:50 AMOpening of the day
    Presentations by 1st-year PhD students
    9:00 AMClément FANJAS
    Real-Time Frequency Detection to Synchronize Fault Injection on System-on-Chips
    9:15 AMLouis NOYEZ
    Generic Hardware Implementations of the AMNS arithmetic
    9:30 AMRodrigo SILVA LIMA
    Contactless attack techniques through the backside of ICs using optical methods
    9:45 AMKevin CARTA
    About the security of biometrics solutions
    Presentations by 2nd-year PhD students
    10:00 AM
    		Nathan ROUSSEL
    MRAM/CMOS Hybridization to Secure LWC Algorithms
    10:40 AM
    		Roukoz NABHAN
    Securing the IoT against fault injection attacks using digital sensors
    11:00 AMFrançois BONNAL
    Software CFI on microcontrollers for IoT
    11:20 AMRaphaël JOUD
    Side-channel Analysis for Fidelity-oriented Extraction of Embedded Deep Neural Network Models
    11:40 AM Kevin HECTOR
    Parameter-based Attacks Against Neural Network Models
    12:00 PMLunch
    Presentations by 3rd-year PhD students
    1:30 PMBaptiste NGUYEN
    Domain generalization and inference optimization on low-power MCU
    2:00 PMWilliam CRUZ
    An Experimentally Tuned Compact Electrical Model for Laser Fault Injection Simulation
    2:35 PMCoffee break
    2:50 PMAnthony ZGHEIB
    A CFI Verification System based on the RISC-V Instruction Trace Encoder
    3:20 PMEnd of the day

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    2021

    Doctoral Students’ Day 2021

    June 17, 2021 in Gardanne, Aix-Marseille-Provence campus

    9:00 AMHome
    9:20 AMOpening of the day
     Presentations by 1st-year PhD students and early 2nd-year PhD students
    9:30 AMBonnal François
    Security of the boot phase and intellectual property of microcontrollers used in connected objects
    9:45 AMRoussel Nathan
    Design, characterization, and protection of lightweight cryptographic building blocks through CMOS/MRAM hybridization
    10:00 AMJoud Raphaël
    Side-channel attack against the confidentiality of embedded machine learning models: attacks, protections, evaluation
    10:15 AMN’Guyen Baptiste
    Machine learning for exploiting time-series data: domain adaptation and inference optimization on low-power microcontrollers
    10:35 AMCoffee break
     Presentations by 2nd-year PhD students and early 3rd-year PhD students
    10:50 AMSouza da Cruz William
    Contribution of multiphysics modelling to integrated-circuit security issues against laser attacks
    11:10 AMZgheib Anthony
    Hardware/software hardening of a processor for control-flow integrity
    11:30 AMTasso Élise
    Resistance of isogeny-based cryptographic implementations to fault attacks
    11:50 AMGaine Clément
    Assessment and mitigation of the risk of EM fault injection attacks on mobile platforms
    12:15 PMLunch break
     Presentations by 3rd-year PhD students
    1:45 PMBernhard Rémi
    Integrity of neural network models: attacks, defenses and evaluation methods
    2:10 PMLavice Arthur
    Hardware implementations of pairings at current security levels
    2:35 PMMortajine Lina
    Analysis of post-quantum algorithms implementable in practice
    3:00 PME-coffee break
     Presentations by 3rd-year PhD students
    3:15 PMGravellier Joseph
    Remote hardware attacks: a review of 3 years of research
    3:40 PMSohier Thibaut
    Development of a backside protection structure against physical attacks on secure chips and microsystems
    4:05 PMEnd of the day and thesis monitoring committees

    Presentation details

    • 25 minutes (20 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 3A PhD student.
    • 15 minutes (10 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 1A PhD student.
    • 20 minutes (15 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 2A PhD student.

    Contacts

    2020

    Doctoral Students’ Day 2020

    June 24, 2020 – Gardanne – online

    9:30 AMHome
    9:50 AMOpening of the day
     Presentations by 1st-year PhD students
    10:00 AMZgheib Anthony
    Hardware/software hardening of a processor for control-flow integrity
    10:15 AMNguyen Baptiste
    Machine learning for exploiting time-series data: domain adaptation and inference optimization on low-power microcontrollers
    10:30 AMCruz William
    Contribution of multiphysics modelling to integrated-circuit security issues against laser attacks
    10:45 AMCoffee break
     Presentations by late 1st-year and 2nd-year PhD students
    11:00 AMTasso Elise
    Hardware security for post-quantum cryptography based on isogenies between elliptic curves
    11:15 AMSohier Thibaut
    Backside shielding against physical attack
    11:35 AMLavice Arthur
    Arithmetic for pairing based cryptography
    12:00 PME-lunch break.
     Presentations by 2nd-year PhD students
    1:30 PMBernhard Rémi
    Intrinsic security of neural networks: attacks, protections, evaluation.
    1:50 PMGaine Clément
    Assessment and mitigation of the risk of EM fault injection attacks on mobile platforms
    2:10 PMGravellier Joseph
    Remote hardware attacks on connected devices
    2:30 PME-coffee break
     Presentations by 3rd-year PhD students
    2:45 PMMortajine Lina
    Study of post-quantum algorithms implementable in practice
    3:10 PMMenu Alexandre
    Single-bit laser fault on NOR Flash memory: analysis and exploitation
    4:00 PMEnd of the day. Activities

    Presentation details

    • 15 minutes (10 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 1A PhD student.
    • 20 minutes (15 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 2A PhD student.
    • 25 minutes (20 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 3A PhD student.

    Contacts

    2019

    Doctoral Students’ Day 2019

    June 25, 2019 – Gardanne

    9:30 AMHome
    9:50 AMOpening of the day
    10:00 AMPresentations by 1st-year PhD students
    Bernhard Rémi
    Intrinsic security of neural networks: attacks, protections, evaluation.
    10:20 AMGaine Clément
    Assessment and mitigation of the risk of EM fault injection attacks on mobile platforms.
    10:40 AMGravellier Joseph
    Remote hardware attacks on connected devices.
    11:00 AMCoffee break
    11:20 AMPresentations by 1st-year PhD students (continued)
    Sophier Thibaut
    Backside shielding against physical attack.
    11:40 AMLavice Arthur
    Arithmetic for pairing based cryptography.
    12:00 PMOutdoor buffet / Activities.
    1:30 PMPresentations by 2nd-year PhD students
    Mortajine Lina
    Study of post-quantum algorithms implementable in practice.
    1:55 PMPresentations by 3rd-year PhD students
    Bel Khorchi Amina
    Homomorphic encryption.
    2:25 PMKharbouche Mounia
    Light-weight Cipher Based On Hybrid CMOS/STT-MRAM: Power/Area Analysis.
    2:55 PMMontoya Maxime
    Adaptive and energy-efficient security for the IoT.
    3:25 PMSmache Meriem
    Study of security in IoT applications. A distributed approach.
    4:00 PMEnd of the day. Activities

    Presentation details

    • 5-minute introduction.
    • 15 minutes (10 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 1A PhD student.
    • 20 minutes (15 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 2A PhD student.
    • 25 minutes (20 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 3A PhD student.

    Contacts

    2018

    Doctoral Students’ Day 2018

    June 6, 2018 – Frioul

    8:50 AMFrioul shuttle
    9:30 AMArrival and coffee
    9:50 AMPresentation of the SAS team’s activities
    DUTERTRE Jean Max, WACQUEZ Romain
    10:00 AMHardware vulnerabilities of connected objects
    MENU Alexandre, 1A
    10:20 AMAdaptive and energy efficient security in the Internet of Things
    MONTOYA Maxime, 2A
    10:40 AMEvaluation of security solutions for mobile platforms
    LEIGNAC Paul, 2A
    11:00 AMCoffee/tea break
    11:20 AMHomomorphic cryptography or equivalent for the Internet of Things
    BELKORCHI Amina, 2A
    11:45 AMSTT and SOT MRAM for secure systems in microelectronics
    KHARBOUCHE -HARRARI Mounia, 2A
    12:00 PMLunch
    2:00 PMBinary Edwards Curves for intrinsically secure ECC implementations for the IoT
    LOISEAU Antoine, 2A
    2:30 PMStudy of security in smart grid deployment
    SMACHE Meriem, 3A
    3:00 PMLightweight Cryptography Intrinsically Resistant to Physical Attacks for the Internet of Things
    LAC Benjamin, 3A
    3:30 PMEvaluating the efficiency of new transient-fault detection techniques for ICs underlaser-induced fault sources
    VIERA Raphael, 3A
    4:00 PM – 5:30 PMFree visit of Frioul

    Presentation details

    • 5-minute introduction.
    • 15 minutes (10 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 1A PhD student.
    • 20 minutes (15 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 2A PhD student.
    • 25 minutes (20 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 3A PhD student.

    Contacts

    2017

    Doctoral Students’ Day 2017

    June 9, 2017 – Château de Cadarache

    9:00 AMArrival
    9:30 AMPresentation of the SAS team
    DUTERTE Jean Max, WACQUEZ Romain
    Adaptive and energy-efficient security in the Internet of Things
    MONTOYA Maxime
    Was Shamir right to predict the death of elliptic curves
    LOISEAU Antoine
    Evaluation of security solutions for mobile platforms
    LEIGNAC Paul
    Homomorphic cryptography or equivalent for the Internet of Things
    BELKORCHI Amina
    11:00 AMCoffee/tea break
    11:15 AMSTT and SOT MRAM for secure systems in microelectronics
    HARRARI Mounia
    Study of security in smart grid deployment
    SMACHE Meriem
    Lightweight cryptography for the Internet of Things: secure implementations and integration
    ADOMNICAI Alexandre
    12:15 PMLunch
    1:30 PMLightweight cryptography intrinsically resistant to physical attacks for the Internet of Things
    LAC Benjamin
    Evaluating the efficiency of new transient-fault detection techniques for ICs under laser-induced fault sources
    VIERA Raphael
    Security characterization of OxRRAM
    KRAKOVINSKY Alexis
    Development of an embedded detector to counter fault injection attacks
    EL-BAZE David
    3:00 PMBreak
    3:15 PMSecuring pairing algorithms against physical attacks
    JAUVART Damien
    Compilation of software countermeasures against fault injection attacks
    BARRY Thierno
    4:30 PMEnd

    Presentation details

    • 5-minute introduction.
    • 15 minutes (10 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 1A and 2A PhD student.
    • 20 minutes (15 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 3A PhD student.

    Contacts

    2015

    Doctoral Students’ Day 2015

    June 22, 2015 – Château de Cadarache

    9:00 AMWelcome breakfast
    9:30 AMPhD student presentations (1/4)
    Brief introduction to the thesis topic and progress status
    10:45 AMCoffee/tea break
    11:00 AMPhD student presentations (2/4)
    12:00 PMLunch
    1:30 PMPhD student presentations (3/4)
    2:30 PMCoffee/tea break
    2:45 PMPhD student presentations (4/4)
    4:00 PMEnd

    Presentation details

    • 5-minute introduction.
    • 15 minutes (10 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 1A and 2A PhD student (2 + 6 PhD students).
    • 20 minutes (15 min presentation, 5 min questions) per 3A PhD student (5 PhD students).

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