Pith Number

pith:EOXJ4VAL

pith:2015:EOXJ4VALSWJ3Z3EQBSBC3NWKV7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Cryptography: where do we stand?

Nicolas Gisin

arxiv:1508.00341 v1 · 2015-08-03 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EOXJ4VALSWJ3Z3EQBSBC3NWKV7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:58.369523Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23ae9e540b9593bcec900c822db6caafd8f81e2ac9c0cb17fbd4ab7ce101497a

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.00341 · arxiv_version: 1508.00341v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.00341 · pith_short_12: EOXJ4VALSWJ3 · pith_short_16: EOXJ4VALSWJ3Z3EQ · pith_short_8: EOXJ4VAL

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/EOXJ4VALSWJ3Z3EQBSBC3NWKV7 \
  | 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: 23ae9e540b9593bcec900c822db6caafd8f81e2ac9c0cb17fbd4ab7ce101497a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ce5ee19aa5dc86f3cb9f1c1efc43e7ce9a436b28db4a4715ac70f1558d6683f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-03T08:32:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a41a3f40923e9485d5e9149a2a7824aa6f2250c320d0204cba2547406b370de2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.00341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}