Pith Number

pith:I6MVRXBD

pith:2025:I6MVRXBDBI6SQTSUU7USNSBCQF

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Incorporating device characterization into security proofs

Ernest Y.-Z. Tan, Shlok Nahar

arxiv:2508.15383 v2 · 2025-08-21 · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{I6MVRXBDBI6SQTSUU7USNSBCQF}

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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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First computed	2026-06-02T01:03:33.228111Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

479958dc230a3d284e54a7e926c8228160cf1344a50a4e4abd99ede7015ad866

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.15383 · arxiv_version: 2508.15383v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.15383 · pith_short_12: I6MVRXBDBI6S · pith_short_16: I6MVRXBDBI6SQTSU · pith_short_8: I6MVRXBD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I6MVRXBDBI6SQTSUU7USNSBCQF \
  | 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: 479958dc230a3d284e54a7e926c8228160cf1344a50a4e4abd99ede7015ad866

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba707692599ab3550b6bdbc78899082e85a54f96e85de2511b1ea149eab97ceb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-21T09:21:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5d16fabf3001c55b4063306608754d44508e14f057afc5668466a2e46834babc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.15383",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}