[Cryptography] Two physics experiment questions

Andrea Barontini andrea.barontini at bybaro.it
Tue May 26 06:26:23 EDT 2026


> 
> I've read it as a very different strong signal.  Last year Stephan Neuhaus and
> I published a paper, "the dog and abacus paper", which among other things went
For sure you have more experience and expertise than me, so it's a 
pleasure to read your PoV even if we don't agree.

Let me only add, hoping it's an useful contribution to the debate, that 
just yesterday after posting I heard this podcast with Dan Boneh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-HG87VJj_k

I know DB is one of the Google paper authors, so maybe he's someway 
biased, but even if so (I don't know if he is, but let's say he is to 
consider worst case scenario) it's quite interesting what he said 
between 43:42 and 45:00
https://youtu.be/F-HG87VJj_k?si=KlNwRbM4KVbmoPcV&t=2622

Maybe he just wanted to increase hype, but the way he reacted to 
"Classified?" is quite interesting imho (BTW, that "classified?" doesn't 
appear in transcriptions)

I know being classified (IF SO) doesn't necessarily means a breakthrough 
discovery, but relevance seems likely.

And last but not least, Google ZKP was scrutinized by trailofbits, 
problems has been found, and the proof was corrected:
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/we-beat-googles-zero-knowledge-proof-of-quantum-cryptanalysis/

So I don't see obvious misconduct

Best regards!
Andrea



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