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.

Implementing Prøst on ARM11

Bachelor's thesis on implementing the Prøst permutation on ARM11

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Globally install powerline

Today I’ve tried to globally install Powerline. That was a bit of a pain because it has no global config files. Quick and dirty how-to: Add XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg to …

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Perfect forward secrecy and HSTS with nginx

Today, I enabled perfect forward secrecy on my nginx installation. I’m writing down the config so I can easily find it later.

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Certificate signing with an ePass2003

I have a fairly creative ssl setup on my webserver: I run my own ‘certificate authority’ which signs the server certificate; I have a bunch of alternative names specified; The CA …

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Blendle

Blendle is een kort geleden gelanceerde website waarop je digitaal door kranten en tijdschriften kan bladeren. Denk je “goh, dit wil ik wel lezen”, dan kun je met één klik het …

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Jekyll

As you can see, this site has been overhauled! I am now using the pretty awesome Jekyll static site generator. The source of my website is on Github.

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Time-invariant equality in assembly

For crypto code it's important that it's time-invariant, otherwise it is vulnerable to timing attacks. I've had to build this time-invariant equality test from scratch, because I …

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Music Review

It's been a while since I posted. Today I decided it was time to behave myself a bit like the pretentious hipster I secretly am and post a bit about the music that I discovered …

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OpenSC, Gentoo & Feitian ePass 2003

While playing with my ePass2003 on my Gentoo installation today, I had some trouble getting it to work. As it turned out, you need the following use flags enabled: # …

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