Pith Number

pith:G4RLSKJ2

pith:2017:G4RLSKJ25UC4HIWVKVWAQWSQ6N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A note on quantum safe symmetric key growing

Alexander Ling, Christoph Wildfeuer, Valerio Scarani

arxiv:1707.02766 v1 · 2017-07-10 · 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{G4RLSKJ25UC4HIWVKVWAQWSQ6N}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T00:40:35.823222Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3722b9293aed05c3a2d5556c085a50f35bc0a76ff2ccd5ee03d109e9bda80f99

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.02766 · arxiv_version: 1707.02766v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.02766 · pith_short_12: G4RLSKJ25UC4 · pith_short_16: G4RLSKJ25UC4HIWV · pith_short_8: G4RLSKJ2

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/G4RLSKJ25UC4HIWVKVWAQWSQ6N \
  | 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: 3722b9293aed05c3a2d5556c085a50f35bc0a76ff2ccd5ee03d109e9bda80f99

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "abebd221b99f06077ac64eb3ec85cc30fcddfe277486151747db50c075997d8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-10T09:22:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "492a195dfc10ce8b4a9e12f2a66f874a483c100aa69065e876ef6cb427d4491e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.02766",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}