Pith Number

pith:4R5XCRD7

pith:2026:4R5XCRD75TPRYKYGQ2T4AJOXUV

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When Security Meets Usability: An Empirical Investigation of Post-Quantum Cryptography APIs

Marthin Toruan, Nalin Arachchilage, Raymond K. Zhao, R.D.N. Shakya, Samuel Tseitkin

arxiv:2602.14539 v1 · 2026-02-16 · cs.CR · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4R5XCRD75TPRYKYGQ2T4AJOXUV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-04T01:08:43.096862Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e47b71447fecdf1c2b0686a7c025d7a5502e8ed036d0235a4ece3b201be38843

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.14539 · arxiv_version: 2602.14539v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.14539 · pith_short_12: 4R5XCRD75TPR · pith_short_16: 4R5XCRD75TPRYKYG · pith_short_8: 4R5XCRD7

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/4R5XCRD75TPRYKYGQ2T4AJOXUV \
  | 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: e47b71447fecdf1c2b0686a7c025d7a5502e8ed036d0235a4ece3b201be38843

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d27ac0a489cd33798515af1eadda5cda948d4c2ca22286213b0d1bb884a29ba4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-16T07:59:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54b7005dd86e5861bc0b144fc71b46eb12b08d65153954bff2f6fbda696ed8fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.14539",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}