Pith Number

pith:D2BFFN6X

pith:2017:D2BFFN6X5FQ2ZXBDTBKOMM3FPM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experimentally feasible protocol for semiquantum key distribution

Matty Katz, Michel Boyer, Rotem Liss, Tal Mor

arxiv:1701.07044 v2 · 2017-01-24 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D2BFFN6X5FQ2ZXBDTBKOMM3FPM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:04.751942Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1e8252b7d7e961acdc239854e633657b38ff2daa247583fce67712f28f473116

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.07044 · arxiv_version: 1701.07044v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.07044 · pith_short_12: D2BFFN6X5FQ2 · pith_short_16: D2BFFN6X5FQ2ZXBD · pith_short_8: D2BFFN6X

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/D2BFFN6X5FQ2ZXBDTBKOMM3FPM \
  | 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: 1e8252b7d7e961acdc239854e633657b38ff2daa247583fce67712f28f473116

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8bfa300683b809246c81e3236a2d8062704230c719b730565eede87c840b922",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-24T19:14:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abd04d1a1347cc83cb16ba91e1a1b164fa5ceae286839bc548a88e791e27c473"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.07044",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}