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.

Prøst at Student Research Conference

In July, Peter Schwabe, who supervised my Bachelor’s thesis project, suggested to submit my work to the Student Research Conference. It then turned out that the deadline was the …

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Bitcoin private key qrcode scraper

Tegenlicht today had an episode about Bitcoin where they announced they were going to give away €100 in Bitcoin. They were going to put up a Bitcoin wallet private key as a QR-code …

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Deprecating fields in MongoEngine Documents

I’ve had to rename some fields today with MongoEngine. Using the following approach, I was able to raise DeprecationWarnings when old version were used. Create the following …

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Prøst

Prøst is an authenticated encryption cipher and a contestant in the CAESAR competition for Authenticated Encryption. For my bachelor thesis research project, I’ve implemented Prøst …

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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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