Pith Number

pith:F6334N6Z

pith:2016:F6334N6ZOQZT656CT32GTIGFD4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Source-Channel Secrecy for Shannon Cipher System

Houqiang Li, Lei Yu, Weiping Li

arxiv:1601.04396 v4 · 2016-01-18 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F6334N6ZOQZT656CT32GTIGFD4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:39:47.986884Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2fb7be37d974333f77c29ef469a0c51f0008ed5dfa49e9707991f19f9f84f440

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.04396 · arxiv_version: 1601.04396v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.04396 · pith_short_12: F6334N6ZOQZT · pith_short_16: F6334N6ZOQZT656C · pith_short_8: F6334N6Z

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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/F6334N6ZOQZT656CT32GTIGFD4 \
  | 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: 2fb7be37d974333f77c29ef469a0c51f0008ed5dfa49e9707991f19f9f84f440

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b129827ab1ef9552d0e07ca9e545e345d7c17ae80cca12dd6010130375790bf3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-18T04:28:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be4cd99f527608fd8726fe685babaf5bc7423a843cb877a8e73e59d5d9176b27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.04396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}