Who is this Mallory guy anyway?
Matt Crawford
crawdad at fnal.gov
Mon Sep 22 18:13:40 EDT 2003
> Well, that's the question - is Eve allowed to
> forward packets, in the act of listening, or
> is that the Mallory's job? I don't know.
You can't measure a single-particle state without at least some chance
of destroying the state. (Even quantum non-demolition methods affect
the measured system a bit.) So you can't have a purely passive Eve.
Perhaps "Quentin" is the Quantum Eavesdropper who makes his optimal
tradeoff between gathering the most information and being the least
detectable.
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