"Quantum key distribution as described above was the product of my graduate infatuation with quantum theory. It all happened back in Oxford in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I do not remember exactly what prompted me to visit the Clarendon Laboratory library one rainy day, browse the dusty shelves and pick up the original Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen paper for casual reading. However, I do remember this one sentence in the paper that drew my attention: "...If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty ... the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of physical reality corresponding to this physical quantity." This is a definition of perfect eavesdropping! I guess I was lucky to read it in this particular way. The rest was just about rephrasing the subject in cryptographic terms."
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Artur Ekert, "Cracking codes, part II" (May 1, 2005)
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