Pith Number

pith:KGN52KUY

pith:2017:KGN52KUYPTV3XXYY7P6B3Y7I47

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A quantum key distribution protocol for rapid denial of service detection

Alasdair B. Price, Chris Erven, John G. Rarity

arxiv:1707.03331 v2 · 2017-07-11 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KGN52KUYPTV3XXYY7P6B3Y7I47}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:44.013668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

519bdd2a987cebbbdf18fbfc1de3e8e7f959b06fb7f5c130f89c48c901f9bc7f

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.03331 · arxiv_version: 1707.03331v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.03331 · pith_short_12: KGN52KUYPTV3 · pith_short_16: KGN52KUYPTV3XXYY · pith_short_8: KGN52KUY

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/KGN52KUYPTV3XXYY7P6B3Y7I47 \
  | 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: 519bdd2a987cebbbdf18fbfc1de3e8e7f959b06fb7f5c130f89c48c901f9bc7f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab804902276622f18b4ae1138a5eb8096e10dcde7bd29ae1fd730edd4b2a338c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-11T15:39:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d55a549e98bb78329000333baf88dc68b2729b5e08d7884007cda06f5055399c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.03331",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}