Secure systems engineering
We design, build, and review systems where security comes first — at every layer of the stack.
CE Labs builds systems where security is a requirement, not an afterthought. We work across the full depth of the stack — from the architecture down to the cryptography it rests on — and bring formal methods to bear where correctness matters most.
Systems & architecture
We model threats, draw trust boundaries, and design systems that stay secure under real-world pressure — adversarial users, partial compromise, and long operational lifetimes. The result is an architecture whose security properties are stated precisely, not assumed.
Protocols & key management
Key exchange, authentication, identity, transport, key lifecycle. We design new protocols and review existing ones against the formal security models — and the threats — they actually face, closing the gap between “looks fine” and “provably resists the attacks in scope.”
Cryptography engineering
The algorithms at the foundation: implemented for performance and correctness, hardened against side channels, and ready for the post-quantum transition.
Machine-checked proofs
When the stakes call for it, we go further: machine-checked proofs that the code meets its specification. We deliver the code, the spec, and a verified guarantee that the two agree.
How we work
Design the system
We map the requirements, threats, and trust boundaries up front, then design an architecture that stays secure under the pressure it will actually face.
Pin down the spec
We capture what the system must do — and what an attacker must never be able to do — as a precise specification that everything else is built and tested against.
Build the system
We build to that spec, with security and correctness designed in from the first line rather than bolted on after, and reviewed as the code is written.
Confirm it holds
We check the result against the spec through review, testing, and — where the stakes call for it — machine-checked proofs, with every requirement traced to what we specified.
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