Solution

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After transmission Alice and Bob announce bases, retain matching-basis bits, reveal a random sample, and abort if its error rate is too large; privacy amplification and error correction produce the key. A Breidbart intercept-resend causes error conditional on matching Alice and Bob bases. Since matching occurs with probability , one transmitted qubit detects Eve with probability .

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