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pith:IKHMSO2F

pith:2005:IKHMSO2FF43U7VDE7ELM4QDYGC

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A review on the decoy-state method for practical quantum key distribution

Xiang-Bin Wang

arxiv:quant-ph/0509084 v3 · 2005-09-13 · quant-ph

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Quantum Key Distribution with Imperfections: Recent Advances in Security Proofs

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:02.805379Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

428ec93b452f374fd464f916ce407830aa25e1c24d0952eb6fcc932d5442bc17

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0509084 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0509084v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0509084 · pith_short_12: IKHMSO2FF43U · pith_short_16: IKHMSO2FF43U7VDE · pith_short_8: IKHMSO2F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IKHMSO2FF43U7VDE7ELM4QDYGC \
  | 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: 428ec93b452f374fd464f916ce407830aa25e1c24d0952eb6fcc932d5442bc17

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-09-13T14:43:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aca2fa22280c53cf361c745787e0094e8158258b278e86c452bbb536fc9e257e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}