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 b
> 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 the
