Pith Number

pith:6QBOTVAN

pith:2016:6QBOTVANUKFGQRZOR55YINW4ZP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Device-independence for two-party cryptography and position verification

Jedrzej Kaniewski, Jeremy Ribeiro, Jonas Helsen, Le Phuc Thinh, Stephanie Wehner

arxiv:1606.08750 v1 · 2016-06-28 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6QBOTVANUKFGQRZOR55YINW4ZP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:01.492720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f402e9d40da28a68472e8f7b8436dccbf1d34ccdd35d16967a502158e57a7283

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.08750 · arxiv_version: 1606.08750v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.08750 · pith_short_12: 6QBOTVANUKFG · pith_short_16: 6QBOTVANUKFGQRZO · pith_short_8: 6QBOTVAN

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/6QBOTVANUKFGQRZOR55YINW4ZP \
  | 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: f402e9d40da28a68472e8f7b8436dccbf1d34ccdd35d16967a502158e57a7283

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28741630b838c169ce358d9e75357eedf40e16ed9fc2de34961e27419da47180",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-28T15:07:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b76c0a0677a9e19ef94863c88cb6b27e0ae8f40a6d9bba91dd710fbd2ba880d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.08750",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}