Pith Number

pith:GVRZ5TIZ

pith:2012:GVRZ5TIZ4LKDU3LQQCMTOCSFAH

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A min-entropy uncertainty relation for finite size cryptography

Mario Berta, Nelly Huei Ying Ng, Stephanie Wehner

arxiv:1205.0842 v3 · 2012-05-04 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GVRZ5TIZ4LKDU3LQQCMTOCSFAH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:47.959046Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

35639ecd19e2d43a6d708099370a4501e62e75a055c4afa4c0bb21cd3ff62fec

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0842 · arxiv_version: 1205.0842v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0842 · pith_short_12: GVRZ5TIZ4LKD · pith_short_16: GVRZ5TIZ4LKDU3LQ · pith_short_8: GVRZ5TIZ

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/GVRZ5TIZ4LKDU3LQQCMTOCSFAH \
  | 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: 35639ecd19e2d43a6d708099370a4501e62e75a055c4afa4c0bb21cd3ff62fec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e0bd47eb188465864f3ffb901d7b5ea7764c7158f4b4b6b5c13f6590464e6c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-04T01:59:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2faf486e5bd95ef54a54f77ce872fed9b92d937f395d5a3b38b295376beecea2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}