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Description

Embedded electronic systems and their associated softwares are used in an always increasing number of daily life, industrial and government applications. The security of these systems is a major societal, economic and sovereignty issue. This leads to increasingly activities in research and development by scientists, industry and government services, and especially around the region around Rennes.

The topics that will be discussed during the seminar address the study, the analysis, the performance and security evaluation, the validation, and regulatory aspects of all components of secure embedded electronic systems. All these points will be addressed both at theoretical and experimental levels. Among the discussed topics, one can find: basic elements and components in electronic circuits (FPGA, ASIC, smart-cards, micro-controller), associated softwares, cryptographic primitives, crypto-processors and accelerators, secure storage, secure communication on chip, etc. One can also find secure architecture design, hardware/software co-design, performances analysis, security modules (active and passive countermeasures, secure test systems, secure memories, secure communication on chip, etc.), side channel attacks, fault injection attacks, methods and tools for reverse engineering, CAD tools and formal tools for electronic (for design or test), etc.

  • The scientific board is in charge of the organization and the program of the seminar.
    Its members are:

A seminar session will include two 45-minute talks followed by questions. The complete duration (talk + questions) for each presenter will be 1 hour.
If needed, the scientific committee may propose two short 25-minute talks instead of one 45-minute talk.
People attending to this seminar may have very different backgrounds. Then, it is required that the presenter motivates her/his work and provides explanations in a simple and clear language.

Practical infos

Next sessions

  • Securing processor's microarchitecture against SCA in a post-quantum cryptography setting

    • October 16, 2026 (10:00 - 11:00)

    • IETR - University of Rennes - Campus de BEAULIEU - Bâtiment 11D, salle numéro 18

    Speaker : Vincent MIGLIORE - LAAS-CNRS

    Hardware microarchitecture is a well-known source of side-channel leakages, providing a notable security reduction of standard cryptographic algorithms (e.g. AES) if not properly addressed by software or hardware. In this talk, we present new design approaches to harden processor's microarchitecture against power-based side-channel attacks, relying on configurable and cascadable building blocks[…]

    • SemSecuElec

    • Side-channel

    • Micro-architectural vulnerabilities

  • Onysis: A secure European SoC FPGA 

    • November 13, 2026 (10:00 - 11:00)

    • IETR - University of Rennes - Campus de BEAULIEU - Bâtiment 11D, salle numéro 18

    Speaker : Adrien GRASSEIN - Nanoxplore

    Developed in collaboration with the DGA, the Onysis project introduces a European SoC FPGA designed to embed advanced hardware security features. This presentation will provide an overview of the Onysis architecture, focusing specifically on its native mechanisms to protect critical systems. We will detail the implementation of its integrated security subsystem, covering the secure boot sequence[…]

    • SemSecuElec

  • Using High Level Profiling Data to Early Assess the Fault Tolerance of Complex Digital Components

    • November 13, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00)

    • IETR - University of Rennes - Campus de BEAULIEU - Bâtiment 11D, salle numéro 18

    Speaker : Luc NOIZETTE - Nuclétudes (filiale Ariane group)

    This presentation outlines an innovative methodology for estimating the fault tolerance of complex components based on application profiling obtained using a high-level virtual platform.  A derating factor, derived exclusively from profiling metrics (e.g., lifetime in memory and registers), is calibrated using a reliability dataset collected from a set of benchmarks.  Applying it to test softwares[…]

    • SemSecuElec

    • Fault injection

Previous session

Security of Smart Dust: Robust Key Derivation for Single-Chip Systems

  • June 26, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00)

  • IETR - University of Rennes - Campus de BEAULIEU - Bâtiment 11D, salle numéro 18

Speaker : Sara Faour - Inria

The Smart Dust vision seeks to enable large networks of millimeter-scale wireless sensor nodes that tightly integrate sensing, computation, communication, and power management into a single-chip device. Establishing a robust hardware root of trust for such devices remains challenging, particularly in single, low-cost chip manufacturing processes that lack embedded writable Non-Volatile Memory (NVM[…]

  • SemSecuElec

  • PUF

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