Pith Number

pith:6NRBXRPK

pith:2010:6NRBXRPKE5EOD5P7KJVCD3VVRX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rate Compatible Protocol for Information Reconciliation: An application to QKD

Daniel Lancho, David Elkouss, Jesus Martinez-Mateo, Vicente Martin

arxiv:1006.2660 v1 · 2010-06-14 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6NRBXRPKE5EOD5P7KJVCD3VVRX}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:25:25.929272Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3621bc5ea2748e1f5ff526a21eeb58de98c2641ebaa81daf1390b9d93c6a63b

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.2660 · arxiv_version: 1006.2660v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.2660 · pith_short_12: 6NRBXRPKE5EO · pith_short_16: 6NRBXRPKE5EOD5P7 · pith_short_8: 6NRBXRPK

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/6NRBXRPKE5EOD5P7KJVCD3VVRX \
  | 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: f3621bc5ea2748e1f5ff526a21eeb58de98c2641ebaa81daf1390b9d93c6a63b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd0626aef2a6a374dea512bf215e365c67a014c5c07171f4d16d1ba39a18cc23",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-14T10:29:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd8d6b27ecba7f8ce5786d0b8286060859b7ca1d6f120026ff2019fc8e41917f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.2660",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}