Join us with the development of new a OpenPGP-compliant software that is both more maintainable, and memory safe.
Join us with the development of new a OpenPGP-compliant software that is both more maintainable, and memory safe.
How? You will work in a security team and join a software development project from the very beginning. The project will be divided into independent modules and each module will be constructed under the “test-driven development” approach. You will be responsible for the development of some of those modules.
Why? The most commonly used OpenPGP-compliant software, GNU Privacy Guard, has many crucial applications, e.g. package signing, email encryption, smart card two factor authentication. The existing code base of GPG, however, has a considerable size and can be difficult to maintain. In addition, its code base is written in C, which is not a memory safe language. In this project you will be working on a memory-safe implementation of the OpenPGP standard.
Where? You will mainly work in our Amsterdam office, near station Amsterdam Sloterdijk. Occasionally you will work in our Hilversum office.
With who? With the Labs team of KPN Chief Information Security Office (CISO).
Your roll as intern at KPN CISO:
You will participate in the development of the aforementioned software project. Your challenge would be:
1. understand the current OpenPGP standard
2. understand the current implementation of GNU Privacy Guard in C
3. implement the very same functionality in Rust.
4. implement the software in a secure manner to avoid side channels that leak sensitive information