Pith Number

pith:ZIFEHWDX

pith:2018:ZIFEHWDXQBHYAQGY3UVPGR4ZXB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Hsu-Harn-Mu-Zhang-Zhu group key establishment protocol is insecure

Chris J Mitchell

arxiv:1803.05365 v2 · 2018-03-14 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZIFEHWDXQBHYAQGY3UVPGR4ZXB}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:20:51.524366Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ca0a43d877804f8040d8dd2af34799b8404bef605f8f2ae2eea975c518601fab

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.05365 · arxiv_version: 1803.05365v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.05365 · pith_short_12: ZIFEHWDXQBHY · pith_short_16: ZIFEHWDXQBHYAQGY · pith_short_8: ZIFEHWDX

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/ZIFEHWDXQBHYAQGY3UVPGR4ZXB \
  | 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: ca0a43d877804f8040d8dd2af34799b8404bef605f8f2ae2eea975c518601fab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0621c0a8165a4e2a036de8634b2d9d6076952b6bb86ee64fe32ee10d882e104f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-14T15:43:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96f27a92720a139c1202fd2714627f74e80667fedc020236c6fc8f6f3459ea48"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.05365",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}