Pith Number

pith:IB6RR7PX

pith:2011:IB6RR7PXAS3Y25W4VZB3HF2CCW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum Key Distribution

Itzel Lucio-Mart\'inez, Philip Chan, Wolfgang Tittel, Xiaofan Mo

arxiv:1111.4501 v1 · 2011-11-18 · 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{IB6RR7PXAS3Y25W4VZB3HF2CCW}

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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	2026-05-18T04:08:03.184932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

407d18fdf704b78d76dcae43b3974215aa0b38355d9a52e8383a0b18e06459c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.4501 · arxiv_version: 1111.4501v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.4501 · pith_short_12: IB6RR7PXAS3Y · pith_short_16: IB6RR7PXAS3Y25W4 · pith_short_8: IB6RR7PX

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/IB6RR7PXAS3Y25W4VZB3HF2CCW \
  | 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: 407d18fdf704b78d76dcae43b3974215aa0b38355d9a52e8383a0b18e06459c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "309bd6342366527b34cc5c40fb7ad8f61eb58106427096d91bb81a2a49e0e21e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-18T21:41:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82e1af1157837c112b2a20171ec0ea2b4cf5a4a12e2e6bb742d88d24b088c526"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.4501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}