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by thesz 405 days ago
What is the difference between channel error or distortion and eavesdropping?
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staunton 405 days ago
For eavesdropping, there is someone there who cares about what you're sending and is successfully learning things about it.
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thesz 405 days ago
How can one quantumly differentiate between photon lost due to eavesdropping and photon lost due to some other error?
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staunton 404 days ago
Other than by going around and finding the eavesdropper sitting somewhere, one cannot.
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