Pith Number

pith:BQLNRJOC

pith:2017:BQLNRJOCX4KMAWDHC3TJCGWKNR

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Finite-key analysis for quantum key distribution with weak coherent pulses based on Bernoulli sampling

Masato Koashi, Shun Kawakami, Toshihiko Sasaki

arxiv:1701.04168 v2 · 2017-01-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BQLNRJOCX4KMAWDHC3TJCGWKNR}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:40:30.757774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c16d8a5c2bf14c0586716e6911aca6c725bd499ad6cf2d50bd81aa0ad450605

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.04168 · arxiv_version: 1701.04168v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.04168 · pith_short_12: BQLNRJOCX4KM · pith_short_16: BQLNRJOCX4KMAWDH · pith_short_8: BQLNRJOC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BQLNRJOCX4KMAWDHC3TJCGWKNR \
  | 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: 0c16d8a5c2bf14c0586716e6911aca6c725bd499ad6cf2d50bd81aa0ad450605

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "129974c0eee21005fbf60178d719637301e3aa3d65cf2c3d81a4a7acb38afff2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-16T04:57:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f55f56d774a4a4808d58e35962393189f454dfb80b06b213f58a7bd28538a7b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.04168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}