Thore Göbel

Do you: Have two Linux machines sitting next to each other?

This post is an introduction into Arm Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE), a hardware-based defense against memory safety vulnerabilities.

I’m in the newspaper!

I plotted the development of fiber home internet prices in Switzerland: You can find an interactive version here.

If you have publicly available documentation for your product, open source it!

A rant about internet standards, e-mail, plus-aliases, and why reading the RFCs matters.

In git, it is customary to tag software releases with git tag.

I recently moved out of my shared student flat – where internet was centrally provided – and into my own flat.

Authentic key distribution is a fundamental problem of public key cryptography: how do you know that a public key really belongs an entity (the “subject”)?

TLDR: Don’t log sensitive information.

Did you ever wonder how the parameter size of cryptographic algorithms relates to their security strength?

This post is a collection of things I learned about batteries.

In honor of World Password Day on May 5th the FIDO Alliance, together with Google, Apple and Microsoft, announced “plans to expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard”.

Recently I was implementing some of the TLS 1.3 handshake as part of the Information Security Lab at ETH Zurich.

What makes an app great?

Today I once again found myself needing to stitch screenshots together.

Tracing apps are all around the news these days.

Having taken part in two Student Cluster Competitions now, I want to take the opportunity to take a step back and reflect on what we learnt.

Computer Science in itself is a huge field, and one of it sub-fields is HPC.

I’m a Software Engineer and Computer Scientist based in Switzerland.