Pith Number

pith:GLUTUBXA

pith:1995:GLUTUBXAFYBQLCUHZDIXYPZHLJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Cryptography Based on Orthogonal States

Lev Vaidman, Lior Goldenberg

arxiv:quant-ph/9502021 v1 · 1995-02-25 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GLUTUBXAFYBQLCUHZDIXYPZHLJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:02.315858Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

32e93a06e02e03058a87c8d17c3f275a771fc9331e277e7545849e1836664063

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9502021 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9502021v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9502021 · pith_short_12: GLUTUBXAFYBQ · pith_short_16: GLUTUBXAFYBQLCUH · pith_short_8: GLUTUBXA

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/GLUTUBXAFYBQLCUHZDIXYPZHLJ \
  | 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: 32e93a06e02e03058a87c8d17c3f275a771fc9331e277e7545849e1836664063

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "216d7222f1eff2140e48b630e948f351bad902a6ec5525a0e7bc9cb283b8d47d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-02-25T03:02:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "270db10900341b61b3dfe35f5b86cc3e585d511140a69a6bbc362b0f91e76fcb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9502021",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}