Pith Number

pith:36HPXYIV

pith:2011:36HPXYIVYQCVRTZPQQVUS5UX7R

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Unconditionally Secure Bit Commitment by Transmitting Measurement Outcomes

Adrian Kent (Centre for Quantum Information, DAMTP, Foundations, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics), University of Cambridge

arxiv:1108.2879 v2 · 2011-08-14 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{36HPXYIVYQCVRTZPQQVUS5UX7R}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:23:02.517994Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

df8efbe115c40558cf2f842b497697fc56df2241588a0e3e1d5d6039ae58f21e

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.2879 · arxiv_version: 1108.2879v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.2879 · pith_short_12: 36HPXYIVYQCV · pith_short_16: 36HPXYIVYQCVRTZP · pith_short_8: 36HPXYIV

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/36HPXYIVYQCVRTZPQQVUS5UX7R \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: df8efbe115c40558cf2f842b497697fc56df2241588a0e3e1d5d6039ae58f21e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b915b759a63af3652f3bd55ec8c2fff5343ce72d4d978a173a79bfc0b03a649",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-14T15:13:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e5def0f86623b21907062783dd420a2ad34551c9a4afee001b4583df56a56bf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.2879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}