John and mary are both co authors on the sonic paper. The main reason that halo was built around a sonic style pol p is because that's what we had to hand. Innovation we were focused on was not the proving system per se, but figuring out a way to describe it so that other people would believe us that it worked. Er, there was a very, er, busy week when missus jeston went, i think i have an idea. And then i spent all of that week in my hotel room as we were writing code to try and prove that we could actually get this to work.

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