Pith Number

pith:B3EDDVBV

pith:2011:B3EDDVBVDJA5FN22MMTDX4VIF2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum key distribution with limited classical Bob

Dongyang Long, Ruigang Du, Zhiwei Sun

arxiv:1106.4615 v2 · 2011-06-23 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B3EDDVBVDJA5FN22MMTDX4VIF2}

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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	2026-05-18T04:11:08.322975Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ec831d4351a41d2b75a63263bf2a82e9fae79c55ad68181989de363d8df60bd

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.4615 · arxiv_version: 1106.4615v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.4615 · pith_short_12: B3EDDVBVDJA5 · pith_short_16: B3EDDVBVDJA5FN22 · pith_short_8: B3EDDVBV

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/B3EDDVBVDJA5FN22MMTDX4VIF2 \
  | 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: 0ec831d4351a41d2b75a63263bf2a82e9fae79c55ad68181989de363d8df60bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02dd5e5fc522c012980bac704d69bc340e6cccc8019f8ea91e5525a21d9ea634",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-23T03:08:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9312e4422e2b5a49a4f0907c1e27db517b3f3067440a67cecd9778501884bee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.4615",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}