Thom Wiggers

Thom Wiggers

Senior Cryptography Researcher
Thom Wiggers is a cryptography researcher at PQShield. His PhD thesis was on the interactions of post-quantum cryptography with protocols, under the supervision of Peter Schwabe, at the Institute of Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University in The Netherlands.

A tale of two models: Formal analysis of KEMTLS in Tamarin

A tale of two models: Formal analysis of KEMTLS in Tamarin Sofia Celi, Jonathan Hoyland, Douglas Stebila and me. Once upon a time... Observation: PQ signatures are quite big and/or …

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A tale of two models: formal verification of KEMTLS in Tamarin

We prove the security of KEMTLS in two Tamarin models. One mode is based on the Cremers et al. model of TLS 1.3; the other closely resembles our pen-and-paper proofs. These models …

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KEMTLS with Delayed Forward Identity Protection in (Almost) a Single Round

The recent KEMTLS protocol (Schwabe, Stebila and Wiggers,CCS’20) is a promising design for a quantum-safe TLS handshake protocol. Focused on the web setting, wherein clients learn …

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Invited Lecture: TLS and Post-Quantum (Applied Cryptography, Radboud University)

Invited lecture about TLS, its history and making TLS post quantum. I also discuss KEMTLS.

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LaTeX Tips and Tricks

After a discussion on twitter I decided I should write down a few of the tips and tricks I’ve learnt over the years of writing papers and many other things in LaTeX.

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Improving Software Quality in Cryptography Standardization Projects

The NIST post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standardization project is probably the largest and most ambitious cryptography standardization effort to date, and as such it makes an …

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Cloudflare Internship

If you’re curious about some of the things I’ve worked on while at Cloudflare, see this post on Cloudflare’s internal blog.

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Building confidence in cryptographic protocols

An introduction to formal analysis and our proof of the security of KEMTLS.

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Making protocols post-quantum

Post-quantum key exchange and signature algorithms come with different trade-offs that we’re not used to. How do we handle that when updating protocols, and is this an opportunity …

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Todoist, Omnifocus and Things 3 review

A brief overview of three to-do/project management apps.

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