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.
Ph.D. in Post-Quantum Cryptography
2018-09-01
2024-01-09
Radboud University Nijmegen
MSc in Computing Science
2015-09-01
2018-08-31
Radboud University Nijmegen
Cryptography Post-Quantum Cryptography Protocols Information Security
📚 My Research
Featured Publications
Post-Quantum TLS
Ph.D. thesis on post-quantum cryptography in TLS. I investigate current proposals for post-quantum TLS, but more importantly we propose a more efficient TLS handshake that makes …
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Recent Publications
Recent & Upcoming Talks
Extended Key Update FATT Report
I presented a Formal Analysis Triage Team report on Extended Key Usage (EKU) in the TLS working group session.
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• 2026-03-16 11:30 — 13:30 • 1 min read
Fully PQ TLS in the WWW
Key exchange in TLS is now mostly PQ! But what about authentication? In this talk, I discussed some of the ongoing work to make the costs of PQ certificates acceptable so that …
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• 2025-12-03 14:35 — 15:00 • 2 min read
Recent News
Using Emoji in (pdf)LaTex
I recently wanted to use Emoji in a paper, but I did not want to force my contributors into using LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX (in which you can just use fancy fonts). So as a work around, …
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Post-quantum TLS experiments
Recently, I have computed the sizes and measured the performance of post-quantum TLS (both PQ key exchange and post-quantum authentication). In these experiments, I have examined …
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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 …
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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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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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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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Dissecting Proctorio
This article previously appeared in Thalia’s Thabloid, in the 2019–2020 issue number 5. It was written at the end of May and may not reflect current practice at Radboud University. …
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