Pith Number

pith:EH2FDBCE

pith:2016:EH2FDBCEPKNN7YLYZ3AROVYSRK

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First Experimental Demonstration of Secure NFV Orchestration over an SDN-Controlled Optical Network with Time-Shared Quantum Key Distribution Resources

Alasdair B. Price, Alejandro Aguado, Andrew Lord, Christopher Erven, Dimitra Simeonidou, Emilio Hugues-Salas, Jake E. Kennard, Jaume Marhuenda, John G. Rarity, Mark G. Thompson, Paul Anthony Haigh, Philip Sibson, Reza Nejabati

arxiv:1604.05861 v2 · 2016-04-20 · cs.CR · cs.NI

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\pithnumber{EH2FDBCEPKNN7YLYZ3AROVYSRK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:49.585346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21f45184447a9adfe178cec11757128a81b6bea815d7c38d7071a154f26b4b1d

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.05861 · arxiv_version: 1604.05861v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.05861 · pith_short_12: EH2FDBCEPKNN · pith_short_16: EH2FDBCEPKNN7YLY · pith_short_8: EH2FDBCE

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EH2FDBCEPKNN7YLYZ3AROVYSRK \
  | 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: 21f45184447a9adfe178cec11757128a81b6bea815d7c38d7071a154f26b4b1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "580f96c63cdc8f83bbfc70528c801e07541ae0eb18e3b4e20b61ce7f1eace462",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-20T08:51:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae5c9a65b0594979dd114f31b1da73699338940183b97b041ed161c628dfc658"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.05861",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}