Pith Number

pith:MVWLILA2

pith:2012:MVWLILA2MAS2GRQNUU7VSNOGLD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Separation of Reliability and Secrecy in Rate-Limited Secret-Key Generation

Matthieu R. Bloch, Remi A. Chou

arxiv:1210.4482 v3 · 2012-10-16 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVWLILA2MAS2GRQNUU7VSNOGLD}

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4 Citations 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:51:48.703514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

656cb42c1a6025a3460da53f5935c658fd2e0fb105666d2292d87801c97ef616

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.4482 · arxiv_version: 1210.4482v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.4482 · pith_short_12: MVWLILA2MAS2 · pith_short_16: MVWLILA2MAS2GRQN · pith_short_8: MVWLILA2

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/MVWLILA2MAS2GRQNUU7VSNOGLD \
  | 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: 656cb42c1a6025a3460da53f5935c658fd2e0fb105666d2292d87801c97ef616

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b8853de97f689f1949c8164b9232b9f8f728e1eb50682569234662c1e0f2f0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-16T16:37:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30c769b5df61b7868aa38c51dff27f4479819337bd6bd7a4fcd04bcaf6bb35a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.4482",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}