Pith Number

pith:FE2HCF2T

pith:2023:FE2HCF2T24VMFLVNUZYS7ZZYMN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Blockwise Key Distillation in Satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution

Alexander Russell, Bing Wang, Don Towsley, Minu J. Bae, Nitish K. Panigrahy, Prajit Dhara, Walter O. Krawec

arxiv:2307.04300 v1 · 2023-07-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FE2HCF2T24VMFLVNUZYS7ZZYMN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T06:29:11.280552Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2934711753d72ac2aeada6712fe738635b0043887d0e7567bff3d390e6f77c9a

Aliases

arxiv: 2307.04300 · arxiv_version: 2307.04300v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.04300 · pith_short_12: FE2HCF2T24VM · pith_short_16: FE2HCF2T24VMFLVN · pith_short_8: FE2HCF2T

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/FE2HCF2T24VMFLVNUZYS7ZZYMN \
  | 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: 2934711753d72ac2aeada6712fe738635b0043887d0e7567bff3d390e6f77c9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d3771a2ba662c899a1435ec84f592d4f9ddb026768b1531a028a4577a10136c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-07-10T01:34:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04bc2231c52aa8b6a22041d86a15721a41d8a0a18927da29c3b20a9c4aca697a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2307.04300",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}