Pith Number

pith:JK3Z5473

pith:2014:JK3Z5473QJ2B5TVXHWA2NRSA72

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Hacking on decoy-state quantum key distribution system with partial phase randomization

Chun-Yan Li, Lin-Mei Liang, Mu-Sheng Jiang, Shi-Hai Sun, Xiang-Chun Ma

arxiv:1407.3862 v1 · 2014-07-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JK3Z5473QJ2B5TVXHWA2NRSA72}

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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	2026-05-18T02:47:32.455310Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ab79ef3fb82741eceb73d81a6c640fe8d67bd319d07721f9b68f7e5d05baf34

Aliases

arxiv: 1407.3862 · arxiv_version: 1407.3862v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1407.3862 · pith_short_12: JK3Z5473QJ2B · pith_short_16: JK3Z5473QJ2B5TVX · pith_short_8: JK3Z5473

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JK3Z5473QJ2B5TVXHWA2NRSA72 \
  | 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: 4ab79ef3fb82741eceb73d81a6c640fe8d67bd319d07721f9b68f7e5d05baf34

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "096ebeccfa20d1bcdbeda34a18967f93994b819d31c9f003afff371f8ec741c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-07-15T01:56:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75a4a24d7cf834a59e5db1c2be7332fd9feec1a8cbaff5528af7287c691cb0ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1407.3862",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}