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IACR News item: 10 June 2014

University of Cambridge, England, UK, European Union
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A fully funded 3.5 year PhD Studentship is available from October 2014 to work on “Model-Based Assessment of Compromising Emanations”. The project aims to improve our understanding of electro-magnetic emissions that are unintentionally emitted by computing equipment, and the eavesdropping risks they pose. In particular, it aims to improve test and measurement procedures (TEMPEST) for computing equipment that processes extremely confidential data. We are looking for an Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Physics graduate with an interest in electronics, radio communication, hardware security, side-channel cryptanalysis, digital signal processing, electromagnetic compatibility, or machine learning.

This Studentship is funded through Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) under their Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) programme. As part of this programme, the doctoral student will be able to visit and work with GCHQ experts in Cheltenham. To enable such collaboration, this studentship is awarded under the condition that the applicant obtains an advanced UK government security clearance (“developed vetting”). To make this feasible, the applicant should have lived in the UK for the last 10 years and ideally be a British National.

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