Pith Number

pith:6I6NENQV

pith:2016:6I6NENQVILN27U6JZO2RTMJIOF

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Backflash light characterization to prevent QKD zero-error hacking

A. Meda, A. Tosi, G. Brida, I. P. Degiovanni, M. Genovese, Z. L. Yuan

arxiv:1605.05562 v1 · 2016-05-18 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6I6NENQVILN27U6JZO2RTMJIOF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:36.490890Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f23cd2361542dbafd3c9cbb519b128716f434ab03547fccd51b34244b0bf381a

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.05562 · arxiv_version: 1605.05562v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.05562 · pith_short_12: 6I6NENQVILN2 · pith_short_16: 6I6NENQVILN27U6J · pith_short_8: 6I6NENQV

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6I6NENQVILN27U6JZO2RTMJIOF \
  | 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: f23cd2361542dbafd3c9cbb519b128716f434ab03547fccd51b34244b0bf381a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9b5a3ba6741b20097b48290473b313b184a698f2b2e4ff42cec83956415e692",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-18T12:54:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ef6cd7883721dab0abcfe85fbf97778217b9385457629753ff221da9fe0d1dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.05562",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}