Pith Number

pith:DIIYN5UP

pith:2026:DIIYN5UPJKA3SKETC7B2DSSGO6

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From Public-Key Linting to Operational Post-Quantum X.509 Assurance for ML-KEM and ML-DSA: Registry-Driven Policy, Mutation-Based Evaluation, and Import Validation

Jos\'e Luis Delgado Jim\'enez

A registry-driven framework detects all invalid ML-KEM and ML-DSA X.509 artifacts across certificates, public keys, and private-key imports with zero false positives on a 48-item corpus.

arxiv:2604.17003 v2 · 2026-04-18 · cs.CR

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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.

Claims

C1strongest claim

Across a controlled corpus of 48 artifacts (21 valid, 27 invalid), the artifact detects all expected invalid cases in both strict and deployable modes with zero false positives.

C2weakest assumption

The mutation-based corpus of 27 invalid cases is representative of all real-world violations of the 17 requirements across certificate, SPKI, and private-key surfaces.

C3one line summary

The registry-driven assurance framework detects all 27 invalid cases across 48 ML-KEM and ML-DSA artifacts with zero false positives in both strict and deployable modes while outperforming the JZLint baseline.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-21T01:04:25.889904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1a1186f68f4a81b9289317c3a1ca4677834c9bbc5c51e7064bd1385816a6ab98

Aliases

arxiv: 2604.17003 · arxiv_version: 2604.17003v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.17003 · pith_short_12: DIIYN5UPJKA3 · pith_short_16: DIIYN5UPJKA3SKET · pith_short_8: DIIYN5UP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DIIYN5UPJKA3SKETC7B2DSSGO6 \
  | 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: 1a1186f68f4a81b9289317c3a1ca4677834c9bbc5c51e7064bd1385816a6ab98

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-04-18T14:20:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54882179b672ffd9bf51d919708e246acde4a08258522155b2f9beae156aec0f"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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