Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2009 / iii / Paper 53 / 4 / A / 1 / Solution

A secure key can be produced, at one ideal secret bit per copy. The shared Bell state is pure, so the preceding factorization shows that Eve's purifying system is independent of it. Measuring both qubits in the computational basis gives matching outcomes $00$ or $11$, each with probability $1/2$. Neither party announces these key outcomes. Eve's state is the same for both possibilities, so each copy supplies a shared uniform private bit.