Pith Number

pith:HLFIVHAE

pith:2005:HLFIVHAE7NM35UXLOVVGVSVN5F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fast and simple one-way Quantum Key Distribution

Damien Stucki, Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, Valerio Scarani

arxiv:quant-ph/0506097 v1 · 2005-06-13 · 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{HLFIVHAE7NM35UXLOVVGVSVN5F}

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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	2026-07-04T16:57:35.807371Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3aca8a9c04fb59bed2eb756a6acaade968c5e1ccd024d0274fc599990bbf3245

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0506097 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0506097v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0506097 · pith_short_12: HLFIVHAE7NM3 · pith_short_16: HLFIVHAE7NM35UXL · pith_short_8: HLFIVHAE

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/HLFIVHAE7NM35UXLOVVGVSVN5F \
  | 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: 3aca8a9c04fb59bed2eb756a6acaade968c5e1ccd024d0274fc599990bbf3245

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90705272909ac03bf0d40bbe0240de173b86d6254edf9e9c4b3bd9d5d91e79b2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-06-13T09:22:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f5ef4268171e78321b49f4bd261b327ffacaaaeac044bd39683eafedd5e55af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0506097",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}