someone wrote:
Hiya.
Dumb question. Why is the bad guy called Mallory in
this thread? I always thought that traditionally the
two correspondents were called Alice and Bob and that
the bad guy was called Eve. (As in, short for eavesdropper?).
Intercepting the bits and sending them is
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
