Pith Number

pith:FVU72KOL

pith:2024:FVU72KOLERATAH4FJ6OQV7FDCX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Commitments are equivalent to statistically-verifiable one-way state generators

Rahul Jain, Rishabh Batra

arxiv:2404.03220 v4 · 2024-04-04 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FVU72KOLERATAH4FJ6OQV7FDCX}

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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

✓ 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	2026-07-05T09:59:14.762749Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2d69fd29cb2441301f854f9d0afca315df96b64c500bccb423fdab701723462c

Aliases

arxiv: 2404.03220 · arxiv_version: 2404.03220v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.03220 · pith_short_12: FVU72KOLERAT · pith_short_16: FVU72KOLERATAH4F · pith_short_8: FVU72KOL

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/FVU72KOLERATAH4FJ6OQV7FDCX \
  | 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: 2d69fd29cb2441301f854f9d0afca315df96b64c500bccb423fdab701723462c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56e05614e1b2edaebe125fc4dfb816df873f9078d637344d1f3cfc9a6200ac0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-04-04T06:06:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8801516a098489e0e8764e02fab06440b7b48bbf09fb982d58ae0c3aaef263af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2404.03220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}