Pith Number

pith:CJ4GSWM5

pith:2025:CJ4GSWM5H2V6T7EHOZ7Z52UCNE

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A Critical Analysis of Deployed Use Cases for Quantum Key Distribution and Comparison with Post-Quantum Cryptography

Boris \v{S}kori\'c, Bruno Cimoli, Chigo Okonkwo, Fiona Johanna Weber, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Kathrin H\"ovelmanns, Nick Aquina, Sebastian Verschoor, Simon Rommel, Soumya Das

arxiv:2502.04009 v2 · 2025-02-06 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CJ4GSWM5H2V6T7EHOZ7Z52UCNE}

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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	2026-07-05T10:59:05.507843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

127869599d3eabe9fc87767f9eea82691501ed87862cc95c9a145c48cc27862a

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.04009 · arxiv_version: 2502.04009v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.04009 · pith_short_12: CJ4GSWM5H2V6 · pith_short_16: CJ4GSWM5H2V6T7EH · pith_short_8: CJ4GSWM5

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/CJ4GSWM5H2V6T7EHOZ7Z52UCNE \
  | 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: 127869599d3eabe9fc87767f9eea82691501ed87862cc95c9a145c48cc27862a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2527a429f01f7a132ba29f42e61887bac392c1135d4e6083be60aa35ecd09258",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-06T12:11:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edab925ccb10e318f4d08ae7cb954ca9aba715a7a8cc8e9b18c4b8f4e06a18c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.04009",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}