New OC Startup Job Listing: Cryptography and Security for 5G/IOT Opportunity

Check out this new local Cryptography and Security for 5G/IOT job opportunity from Global Telecom Engineering:

Global Telecom is looking for Cryptography for Hyper-scale Architectures in a Robust Fifth Generation (5G) and Internet Of Things (IOT) professionals to join their team.

Objective

Develop revolutionary approaches for fast, efficient, and quantum resistant cryptographic operations for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Confidential communications, message integrity, group membership, and scalable key management must be demonstrated.

Description

The exponential price/performance improvements in semiconductor technology stemming from Moore's Law are enabling even the smallest and most application-specific devices, such as sensors and actuators, to include networking capabilities. The overwhelming majority of such devices will be cheap and power constrained. Low device costs permit deployment in unprecedented numbers, with some estimates as high as a trillion devices, 5G wireless networks makes them “hyper-connected” and collectively they form what is called an Internet of Things (IoT). Revolutionary security technologies are needed for IoT devices. The emergence of public-key cryptography, such as the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) scheme predicated on the hardness of factoring, used number-theoretic concepts to derive protocols for confidential communications, identity verification with digital signatures, message integrity checking with secure hashing, etc. A logistical challenge arises, however, as these protocols presume the legitimacy of the public key used. While no universal public key infrastructure (PKI) exists, legitimacy is now “certified” using a sequence of digital signatures starting from a trusted authority.

A 10+ year deployment lifetime is expected for some types of IoT devices. Today, energy (such as battery power) consumed by cryptographic operations reduces deployment lifetimes, discouraging manufacturers from including security. Further, Shor’s algorithm, which uses quantum computing to accelerate factoring, undermines the security model of RSA-based cryptography. Quantum computing may appear before today’s deployments end. The objective is solutions that are fast, efficient, and quantum-resistant on even the cheapest devices.

The prototype will be low-cost, small-footprint, post-quantum cryptographic techniques with minimal energy use for devices in an IoT. Technical requirements should have their genesis in expected use cases. Vehicle-embedded and wearable uses with a zero-trust networking architecture are of particular interest, e.g., uses within a larger scenario of wearable- equipped passengers entering, traveling in and departing from a vehicle such as school bus.