Pith Number

pith:BSTDRCWF

pith:2012:BSTDRCWF72LVTVMCLENWMDSRO2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Unconditionally Secure Quantum Bit Commitment Protocol

Horace P. Yuen

arxiv:1212.0938 v1 · 2012-12-05 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BSTDRCWF72LVTVMCLENWMDSRO2}

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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	2026-05-18T03:39:06.917433Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ca6388ac5fe9759d582591b660e517689c5b95749ec1b9fb5e5b3dd33c329ee

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.0938 · arxiv_version: 1212.0938v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.0938 · pith_short_12: BSTDRCWF72LV · pith_short_16: BSTDRCWF72LVTVMC · pith_short_8: BSTDRCWF

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/BSTDRCWF72LVTVMCLENWMDSRO2 \
  | 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: 0ca6388ac5fe9759d582591b660e517689c5b95749ec1b9fb5e5b3dd33c329ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2976b18b10cd542c1bf9b664ec9a6c1fe70aab4d952ea7ca565242d3ff312c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-05T06:17:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f7b74a99a1af061a2e8a7fcdb64f1e146f0844f702cde5a8ed40ad6eb967bfc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.0938",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}