Pith Number

pith:3N62TT3G

pith:1997:3N62TT3GW3JDV2OYCET7VIXMM5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A brief review on the impossibility of quantum bit commitment

Claude Cr\'epeau, Dominic Mayers, Gilles Brassard, Louis Salvail

arxiv:quant-ph/9712023 v1 · 1997-12-10 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{3N62TT3GW3JDV2OYCET7VIXMM5}

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The Hardness of Learning Quantum Circuits and its Cryptographic Applications

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:47:09.824363Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db7da9cf66b6d23ae9d81127faa2ec677791734e2d6807b65d09e95c77629b40

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9712023 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9712023v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9712023 · pith_short_12: 3N62TT3GW3JD · pith_short_16: 3N62TT3GW3JDV2OY · pith_short_8: 3N62TT3G

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/3N62TT3GW3JDV2OYCET7VIXMM5 \
  | 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: db7da9cf66b6d23ae9d81127faa2ec677791734e2d6807b65d09e95c77629b40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1cd9ed110e8d0e96b8d5fe126c5ec6fcd79d4c662a2b36b62f5cfbe885fe7709",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-10T20:16:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53a63b154b7c6fe1b27031ceb135326e2d0ba4fc55d4a192143bfb710360122a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9712023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}