Pith Number

pith:GQ3G3KEF

pith:2020:GQ3G3KEFV44GC2V4MHTZOLQA6H

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Are quantum cryptographic security claims vacuous?

Joseph M. Renes, Renato Renner

arxiv:2010.11961 v1 · 2020-10-22 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GQ3G3KEFV44GC2V4MHTZOLQA6H}

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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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1 paper in Pith

A Critical Analysis of Deployed Use Cases for Quantum Key Distribution and Comparison with Post-Quantum Cryptography

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:45:32.104508Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

34366da885af38616abc61e7972e00f1c16edb0bce7043cdbe4f11df343bd8dc

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.11961 · arxiv_version: 2010.11961v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.11961 · pith_short_12: GQ3G3KEFV44G · pith_short_16: GQ3G3KEFV44GC2V4 · pith_short_8: GQ3G3KEF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GQ3G3KEFV44GC2V4MHTZOLQA6H \
  | 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: 34366da885af38616abc61e7972e00f1c16edb0bce7043cdbe4f11df343bd8dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29fb3ebce60c1d8df2a59dcca233b6902088453d277737e7c7fa9eccba3aa21a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-22T18:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41b0c1effac7746b4c6d828205d203775c3c775ceb0eb907bde87a4d97075a5c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.11961",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}