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DESCRIPTION:What do _Niccolò Machiavelli_ and _Grover's Algorithm_ have in
  common? More than you think. While one mastered the art of political mani
 pulation in the 1500s\, the other promises a quadratic speedup for quantum
  key search. But when these two worlds collide\, something unexpected happ
 ens: **The quantum oracle misfires**.\n\nIn this talk\, we build Grover se
 arch oracles directly from Renaissance Italian texts —\n_Il Principe_\, 
 _Orlando Furioso_\, _Il Cortegiano_\, _I Ricordi_ — and measure exactly 
 how much\nlinguistic redundancy contracts the cipher key space. We then si
 mulate those oracles on a real quantum statevector and watch the standard 
 iteration formula get it catastrophically wrong.\n\nWe will dive into:\n\n
 - **The Corpus-Driven Oracle**: How character-level _n-gram_ redundancy de
 fines the fraction of "good" keys _p_good_ — the sole parameter governin
 g both classical exhaustive search and Grover oracle call count.\n- **The 
 Discrete Resonance Failure**: At one statistical threshold\, the textbook 
 formula predicts 2 optimal iterations. The real quantum simulation needs 2
 4 — making quantum search **four times _slower_ than classical** at that
  point. We dissect why.\n- **The L=600 Transition Zone**: An empirical ano
 maly where stylistic variance in 16th-century prose (Latin citations\, pro
 per-noun lists) creates a chaotic instability band that separates statisti
 cal noise from structural reality.\n- **QUBO vs. Grover**: Why compressing
  a 23-letter alphabet to 7 letters breaks the annealer but leaves the quan
 tum oracle unaffected — and what that tells us about attack-surface geom
 etry.\n\nJoin us for a journey where orthography meets qubits\, proving th
 at whether you hold a quill or a\nquantum processor\, **redundancy is the 
 enemy of secrecy — but discrete arithmetic is the enemy\nof quantum spee
 dup**.
DTSTAMP:20260412T011757Z
LOCATION:Main Stage
SUMMARY:Exploiting the Past: How Linguistic Redundancy weaponizes the Quant
 um Search Landscape - Alessio Di Santo\, Gabriella Lanziani
URL:https://pretalx.com/bsidesluxembourg-2026/talk/YHW98L/
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