Pith Number

pith:YHPFITCB

pith:2026:YHPFITCBIIOYRKBDTMPOILEBVA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Toward Practical Two-Way Covert Communication

Boulat A. Bash, Jaim Bucay, Mark J. Meisner, Michael S. Bullock, Paul N. Fessatidis, Saikat Guha, Shelbi L. Jenkins, Tae E. Cooper, Wyatt Wallis

arxiv:2605.29840 v1 · 2026-05-28 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YHPFITCBIIOYRKBDTMPOILEBVA}

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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	2026-05-29T02:05:55.546137Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1de544c41421d88a8239b1ee42c81a802f46da1e5fe6ffe22c7f88da3ccb291

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.29840 · arxiv_version: 2605.29840v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.29840 · pith_short_12: YHPFITCBIIOY · pith_short_16: YHPFITCBIIOYRKBD · pith_short_8: YHPFITCB

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/YHPFITCBIIOYRKBDTMPOILEBVA \
  | 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: c1de544c41421d88a8239b1ee42c81a802f46da1e5fe6ffe22c7f88da3ccb291

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0783c61047570a492ba5f14f911d8374e47d240e71a5235237d7b372c9498b7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T12:22:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93ff1797449a8f081fe8b7f5192c065ed8695ed3332074f95e92d040eed91212"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.29840",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}