Pith Number

pith:GIUJ5USU

pith:2013:GIUJ5USUCXQ4HTLR4SPI6LXKZW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the security of key distribution based on Johnson-Nyquist noise

Charles H. Bennett, C. Jess Riedel

arxiv:1303.7435 v1 · 2013-03-29 · quant-ph · cs.CR · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GIUJ5USUCXQ4HTLR4SPI6LXKZW}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:29:28.416517Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

32289ed25415e1c3cd71e49e8f2eeacda0c893f199651828b57b8e6901f820d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.7435 · arxiv_version: 1303.7435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.7435 · pith_short_12: GIUJ5USUCXQ4 · pith_short_16: GIUJ5USUCXQ4HTLR · pith_short_8: GIUJ5USU

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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/GIUJ5USUCXQ4HTLR4SPI6LXKZW \
  | 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: 32289ed25415e1c3cd71e49e8f2eeacda0c893f199651828b57b8e6901f820d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b066c87d25728b0d2a92c667afe8615bf822e21824078242e8a84e91dadd7d32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-29T16:41:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d1626a202b8134a2f7655a2eabfda33468d34b33e09bbb0b5be59a4dcb54f475"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.7435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}