Pith Number

pith:BOXPTUX7

pith:2026:BOXPTUX72G37J4M3S3M7NSGSI3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Building Europe's Quantum Shield: The Strategic view for a Continent-Wide Quantum Key Ditribution (QKD) Infrastructure

Alexios Aivaliotis, Evangelos Markatos, Ilias Papastamatiou, Konstantinos Karantzalos, Leandros Maglaras

arxiv:2605.22332 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BOXPTUX72G37J4M3S3M7NSGSI3}

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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	2026-05-22T01:04:38.157357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0baef9d2ffd1b7f4f19b96d9f6c8d246c2e5fa90d8bc3b801b507290df5f6403

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.22332 · arxiv_version: 2605.22332v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.22332 · pith_short_12: BOXPTUX72G37 · pith_short_16: BOXPTUX72G37J4M3 · pith_short_8: BOXPTUX7

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/BOXPTUX72G37J4M3S3M7NSGSI3 \
  | 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: 0baef9d2ffd1b7f4f19b96d9f6c8d246c2e5fa90d8bc3b801b507290df5f6403

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b938b17361a4673595923902063a7b59ce3655595a386ec6dc87c125f25f85fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T11:20:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83f294013620a6c07021cf92a7c2eab3bae4186fd08004fafd28a7d9d901bde9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.22332",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}