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Exactly, practically it makes no different that the method could be fooled with a very tiny probability, but when making these counterintuitive statements I think it is important to be precise.

Ideally the reader should fully understand the statement and still feel amazed, rather than doubting the statement for a valid reason: perfect zero knowledge proof systems (which do not fail sometimes) are impossible and a reader would be right to think so



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