Pith Number

pith:HS6VFBQE

pith:2012:HS6VFBQE5II24LCWRDN3T2EZMC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Device-independent quantum key distribution secure against adversaries with no long-term quantum memory

Anthony Leverrier, Antonio Acin, Lluis Masanes, Stefano Pironio

arxiv:1211.1402 v2 · 2012-11-06 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HS6VFBQE5II24LCWRDN3T2EZMC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:02:57.416373Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3cbd528604ea11ae2c5688dbb9e899608af4b9f1450772b9c11d04d76cbc737e

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.1402 · arxiv_version: 1211.1402v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.1402 · pith_short_12: HS6VFBQE5II2 · pith_short_16: HS6VFBQE5II24LCW · pith_short_8: HS6VFBQE

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/HS6VFBQE5II24LCWRDN3T2EZMC \
  | 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: 3cbd528604ea11ae2c5688dbb9e899608af4b9f1450772b9c11d04d76cbc737e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7835d131e9a1af288b90bdc9acd4f8a3892028780f591926268d91dd37721c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-06T21:22:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77005f30b2963d8f6e342228e3b8d508a7b102970e9de80c188a74b1095ae1f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.1402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}