Pith Number

pith:QAA4LM4Y

pith:2010:QAA4LM4YD3AMOQYXQCJLHDGWAB

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Decoy States and Two Way Quantum Key Distribution Schemes

Iskandar Bahari, J.S. Shaari, Sellami Ali

arxiv:1006.1693 v2 · 2010-06-09 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QAA4LM4YD3AMOQYXQCJLHDGWAB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:06:55.793890Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8001c5b3981ec0c743178092b38cd6006e088b9d2d59b63c6c9c5899b1d6a58a

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.1693 · arxiv_version: 1006.1693v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.1693 · pith_short_12: QAA4LM4YD3AM · pith_short_16: QAA4LM4YD3AMOQYX · pith_short_8: QAA4LM4Y

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/QAA4LM4YD3AMOQYXQCJLHDGWAB \
  | 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: 8001c5b3981ec0c743178092b38cd6006e088b9d2d59b63c6c9c5899b1d6a58a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "716761cdc8a34beec4b0dcab0dd9f28b81037be6738ac0f9d21f5f534ebba2ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-09T03:10:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66767a0f45c207c64f852bdc2c6d7aa8d333222ad77ebfdbc0ad9b52735998e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.1693",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}