Pith Number

pith:57F76HFZ

pith:2002:57F76HFZ2CYMYJX6JSXFZYXLGY

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Security of quantum key distribution with imperfect devices

Daniel Gottesman, Hoi-Kwong Lo, John Preskill, Norbert L\"utkenhaus

arxiv:quant-ph/0212066 v3 · 2002-12-11 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{57F76HFZ2CYMYJX6JSXFZYXLGY}

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Rigorous Security Proofs for Practical Quantum Key Distribution

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:46:04.765551Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efcbff1cb9d0b0cc26fe4cae5ce2eb363de3200d48a72cf0728bb5b27ae4f5ec

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0212066 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0212066v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0212066 · pith_short_12: 57F76HFZ2CYM · pith_short_16: 57F76HFZ2CYMYJX6 · pith_short_8: 57F76HFZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/57F76HFZ2CYMYJX6JSXFZYXLGY \
  | 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: efcbff1cb9d0b0cc26fe4cae5ce2eb363de3200d48a72cf0728bb5b27ae4f5ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25a2ab0dd87dcaea896d2f13ff5cf29f78f56789d6b049bb91cc41f3f2780b95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-12-11T01:04:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e12aef3f74f3ec1ebcc27b2cfdfc229b6fae25cc043bc9aef57a92b11e92c684"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0212066",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}