It's a merciless war where good and evil clash with encrypted algorithms for control of the best-kept secrets. Their weapon: cryptanalysis. From the Japanese -nin- for stealthy and -ja- for specialist, the ninja invariably evokes an agile, discreet silhouette tasked with slipping into any fortress, evading security systems. Transform this fortress into a wall of algorithms erected to protect your secrets, and these fighters become In this science you have cryptographers who invent algorithms designed to protect these secrets, and cryptanalysts whose aim is to break these algorithms.
You'll find these algorithms everywhere, starting in your pockets: bank cards, passports, smartphones They're what we call embedded systems. Their weakness? Vulnerability to theft. And since the best defense is an attack, product designers call on Heir to a French ecosystem that invented the smart card, it was in the "Hardware Security" department of the prestigious ANSSI , the French national agency for information systems security, that the pair met. NinjaLab was born and set up on the Saint-Priest campus.
A life of geek entrepreneurs punctuated by "desert crossings and moments of adrenalin, when we finally find the flaw". And when customers give them the time, the two ninjas gladly don the costumes of white hat hackers, ethical hackers who probe the weaknesses of new products on the market, not to harm, but to warn users and designers. In , NinjaLab shot its sharpest star at Google, finding a vulnerability in the Titan security key A side journey to Titan. A great showcase for the company, which saw its order book explode and took the opportunity to recruit a PhD student, without losing sight of the essential.
To grow any bigger would mean more verticality and more administration," stresses Thomas Roche. As long as the formula works and we're having fun, we'll keep it that way!
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