Giacomo Pope (Jack)
- Co-founder of CryptoHack: a free education platform for learning modern cryptography.
- Cryptography consultant with NCC Group.
- Researcher with the University of Bristol, focused on isogeny-based cryptography.
- Ph.D. in theoretical physics, my work was devoted to better understanding black hole solutions of N=2 supergravity and their thermodynamics.
- Compete in CTFs with Organizers.
Research
Cryptography
Articles
- Simpler and Faster Pairings from the Montgomery Ladder
Giacomo Pope, Krijn Reijnders, Damien Robert, Alessandro Sferlazza, Benjamin Smith, 2025.
- Radical 2-isogenies and cryptographic hash functions in dimensions 1, 2 and 3
Sabrina Kunzweiler, Luciano Maino, Tomoki Moriya, Christophe Petit, GP, Damien Robert, Miha Stopar and Yan Bo Ti, PKC 2025.
- SQIsign2D-West: The Fast, the Small, and the Safer
Andrea Basso, Luca De Feo, Pierrick Dartois, Antonin Leroux, Luciano Maino, GP, Damien Robert, and Benjamin Wesolowski, ASIACRYPT 2024.
- An Algorithmic Approach to (2,2)-isogenies in the Theta Model and Applications to Isogeny-based Cryptography
Pierrick Dartois, Luciano Maino, GP and Damien Robert, ASIACRYPT 2024.
- FESTA: Fast Encryption from Supersingular Torsion Attacks
Andrea Basso, Luciano Maino and GP, ASIACRYPT 2023.
- A Direct Key Recovery Attack on SIDH
Luciano Maino, Chloe Martindale, Lorenz Panny, GP and Benjamin Wesolowski, EUROCRYPT 2023.
- A Note on Reimplementing the Castryck-Decru Attack and Lessons Learned for SageMath, Rémy Oudompheng and GP, 2023.
Presentations
Blog Posts
Theoretical Physics
Articles
PhD Thesis