Pith Number

pith:J6FSRYTY

pith:2007:J6FSRYTYUVP6XZIB3NQRY5AT52

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Using quantum key distribution for cryptographic purposes: a survey

Andreas Poppe, Andrew Shields, Anton Zeilinger, Christian Monyk, Cyril Branciard, Gregoire Ribordy, Harald Weinfurter, Jan Bouda, John Rarity, Louis Salvail, Mark Godfrey, Mehrdad Dianati, Michel Riguidel, Momtchil Peev, Nicolas Gisin, Norbert Lutkenhaus, Philippe Grangier, Philippe Painchault, Renato Renner, Romain All\'eaume, Thierry Debuisschert, Thomas Langer, Thomas Pornin

arxiv:quant-ph/0701168 v3 · 2007-01-23 · quant-ph · cs.CR · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J6FSRYTYUVP6XZIB3NQRY5AT52}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Finite-size general security for differential phase shift keying via variable-length quantum key distribution

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:31:38.613159Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f8b28e278a55febe501db611c7413ee8e404cb76daa049539fa143a7319fe02

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0701168 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0701168v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0701168 · pith_short_12: J6FSRYTYUVP6 · pith_short_16: J6FSRYTYUVP6XZIB · pith_short_8: J6FSRYTY

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/J6FSRYTYUVP6XZIB3NQRY5AT52 \
  | 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: 4f8b28e278a55febe501db611c7413ee8e404cb76daa049539fa143a7319fe02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c7de1738512f86630f3a402b69912b0b01423f31ca737e200471dfc42e2e9c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-01-23T14:25:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c5364d9509d21e17d8c38d5d43db6feb950a08172953c37d74e2f6660ba92ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0701168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}