Thom Wiggers

Thom Wiggers

Senior Cryptography Researcher at PQShield

PQShield

Biography

Thom Wiggers is a cryptography researcher at PQShield. He has submitted his PhD thesis 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.

Interests
  • Cryptography
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography
  • Protocols
  • Information Security
Education

  • MSc in Computing Science, 2018

    Radboud University Nijmegen

  • BSc in Computing Science (Informatica), 2015

    Radboud University Nijmegen

  • BSc in Information Sciences (Informatiekunde), 2015

    Radboud University Nijmegen

Recent Posts

hxp 2022 (2023) CTF writeup
After I found myself in a vacation rental with Bas and Joost, we thought it would be fun to have a go at a few of hxp’s 2022 2023 ctf challenges as team #RU (long story relating to Radboud University).
Thom Wiggers
Last updated on 2023-03-14 7 min read
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.
Thom Wiggers
Last updated on 2022-10-04 9 min read
LaTeX Tips and Tricks
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Recent & Upcoming Talks

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.
2022-06-01 10:30 — 12:15 HG00.062
Thom Wiggers
Slides
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Recent Publications

TLS → Post-Quantum TLS: Inspecting the TLS landscape for PQC adoption on Android
The ubiquitous use of smartphones has contributed to more and more users conducting their online browsing activities through apps, …
Dimitri Mankowski, Thom Wiggers, Veelasha Moonsamy
Preprint PDF Code Dataset
On the Practicality of Post-Quantum TLS using Large-Parameter CSIDH
We propose higher-security parametersets of CSIDH, and present highly-optimized implementations. We measure the performance when using these parameters in TLS, and show that the performance is likely not fast enough to consider using CSIDH with conservative parmeter sets.
Fabio Campos, Jorge Chávez-Saab, Jesús-Javier Chi-Domínguez, Michael Meyer, Krijn Reijnders, Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez, Peter Schwabe , Thom Wiggers
Preprint PDF
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Teaching

I have been involved as a teaching assistant in the following courses:

  • Functional Programming (2013-2017)
  • Operating Systems (2014-2017)
  • Object-Oriented Programming for Science students (2015)
  • Operating Systems Security (2016, 2017)
  • Hacking in C (2018, 2019)

See the teaching pages for course materials.

Contact

  • [email protected]
  • Toernooiveld 212
    6525 EC Nijmgen
    The Netherlands
  • Room 3.11b if I’m at the office
  • Working from home