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Keyboard Eavesdropping and Compromission Through Electromagnetic Optimal Coupling in a Cable Network:

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ABG-110375

  • Sujet de Thèse 20/01/2023
  • Contrat doctoral
  • Université de Rennes 1
  • Lieu de travail
  • Rennes
  • Bretagne
  • France
  • Intitulé du sujet
  • Keyboard Eavesdropping and Compromission Through Electromagnetic Optimal Coupling in a Cable Network
  • Champs scientifiques
  • Electronique
  • Sciences de l'ingénieur


  • Mots clés

  • Electromagnetic cybersecurity, Optimal coupling, Guided wave propagation, Keyboard compromission
    Description du sujet:

Supervision:
Francois Sarrazin (Junior Professor Chair at Université de Rennes), and
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Philippe Besnier (Research Director at CNRS)
PhD Context:The ubiquity of information systems leads to an ever-increasing cybercriminality which is becoming the world's most lucrative criminal activity. An emerging threat concerns the use of electromagnetic waves to perform remote cyberattacks. In particular, keyboards are attractive targets because they are widely used as a computer peripheral and keystroke retrieval may lead to sensitive information recovery. Various attacks have been proposed in the literature to remotely retrieve keystrokes, by listening to first acoustic [Ber06] and then electromagnetic emanations [Vua09]. However, the feasibility of denial-of-service attacks on computer keyboard remains an open challenge.


PhD Objectives and Work Plan:

This PhD aims at developing beyond-state-of-the-art electromagnetic attacks to compromise keyboard availability (denial of service) and integrity (fault injection).

To that end, this work will focus on guided propagation medium such as power or communication cables, in order to enable non-line-of-sight attacks at an extended range.


The thesis is organized as follows:

  • State of the art of keyboard electromagnetic attacks
  • Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) study of a few keyboards in terms of immunity and susceptibility
  • Development of denialofservice and faultinjection attacks
  • Attack range extension using advanced signal processing methods [Yeo21]
  • Proposals for countermeasures

PhD Working Environment:
The PhD will take place at the IETR - UMR CNRS 6164 on the
- _Beaulieu campus_ of the Université de Rennes, France. The PhD student will join the eWAVES team (Electromagnetic cybersecurity theme) and will benefit from IETR's world-class technological platforms including CSOQ.
Applicant Profile

  • Education level_: Master of equivalent degree in electrical engineering or physics
  • Background_: wave propagation, electromagnetic compatibility, signal processing
  • Language_: French is not required
    Practical Details and Application
  • PhD duration_: 36 months
- _Starting date_: October 1st 2023
  • Application deadline_: as soon as possible and before April 14th 2023
  • How to apply_:

  • send a resume, cover letter and last academic transcripts through ABG

Bibliography
- [Ber06] Y. Berger, A. Wool and A. Yeredor, "
- _Dictionary attacks using keyboard acoustic emanations_,"
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ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp , 2006, doi: / [Vua09] M. Vuagnoux and S. Pasini, "
- _Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired and Wireless Keyboards_,"
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Conference on USENIX Security Symposium, Berkeley, CA, USA, pp. 1-16, [Yeo21] K. B. Yeo, M. Davy and P. Besnier, "
- _Non-invasive Optimal Coupling Upon Detection of a Local Change of Impedance in a Cable Network_,"
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2021 IEEE International Joint EMC/SI/PI and EMC Europe Symposium, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2021, pp , doi: /EMC/SI/PI/EMCEurope
Nature du financement:

  • Contrat doctoral
    Précisions sur le financement:
  • 1700€ net pr month
    Présentation établissement et labo d'accueil:
  • Université de Rennes 1
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Etablissement délivrant le doctorat:


  • Université de Rennes
  • Education level_: Master of equivalent degree in electrical engineering or physics
  • Background_: wave propagation, electromagnetic compatibility, signal processing
  • Language_: French is not required
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