Pith Number

pith:AH4ORTU3

pith:2026:AH4ORTU3IDCH6WRE6UEZCZFKS2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Beyond the Quantum Promise: A Security Analysis of Classical Control in Quantum Key Distribution

Ali Hamza Malik, Muhammad Taqi Raza, Raja Hasnain Anwar

arxiv:2608.07626 v1 · 2026-08-07 · quant-ph · cs.CR · cs.SC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AH4ORTU3IDCH6WRE6UEZCZFKS2}

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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	2026-08-11T00:15:31.265768Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

01f8e8ce9b40c47f5a24f5099164aa969731c32d799170da0f0d32fc159c40c3

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07626 · arxiv_version: 2608.07626v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07626 · pith_short_12: AH4ORTU3IDCH · pith_short_16: AH4ORTU3IDCH6WRE · pith_short_8: AH4ORTU3

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/AH4ORTU3IDCH6WRE6UEZCZFKS2 \
  | 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: 01f8e8ce9b40c47f5a24f5099164aa969731c32d799170da0f0d32fc159c40c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da86c004a970dec159c929a2d16bf59fbee1b1ebaffb8ed06995665a291ddcfa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T10:18:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a30ad6513b9c6f4511648a3435e19316d9a32ed6beb38ffc63f9594388c8a62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07626",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}