Theoretical physicist, turned aspiring cryptographer. I am primarily interested in the application of elliptic curves in public-key cryptography.
Giacomo Pope (Jack)
- Co-founder of CryptoHack: a free education platform for learning modern cryptography.
- Cryptography consultant with NCC Group.
- 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.
- I have included Writeups for the challenges I have either written or solved from various CTFs.
Research
Cryptography
Articles
- 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
- FESTA: Fast Encryption from Supersingular Torsion Attacks, Andrea Basso, Luciano Maino and GP
- A Direct Key Recovery Attack on SIDH, Luciano Maino, Chloe Martindale, Lorenz Panny, GP and Benjamin Wesolowski
- A Note on Reimplementing the Castryck-Decru Attack and Lessons Learned for SageMath, Rémy Oudompheng and GP
Presentations
- Superspecial Cryptography: Computing Isogenies between Elliptic Products, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Eindhoven (Netherlands), 14th July 2023.
Blog Posts
- Learning to SQI: Implementing SQISign in SageMath, Maria Corte-Real Santos and GP
- Implementing the Castryck-Decru SIDH Key Recovery Attack in SageMath
- Estimating the Bit Security of Pairing-Friendly Curves
Theoretical Physics
Articles
- Type-II Calabi-Yau compactifications, T-duality and special geometry in general spacetime signature, Max Médevielle, Thomas Mohaupt and GP
- Cosmological Solutions, a New Wick-Rotation, and the First Law of Thermodynamics, Jan Gutowski, Thomas Mohaupt and GP
- From Static to Cosmological Solutions of N=2 Supergravity, Jan Gutowski, Thomas Mohaupt and GP