Pith Number

pith:JTH3ROB3

pith:2017:JTH3ROB3HPKKGGCNIGX44UBU5S

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Compressed Secret Key Agreement: Maximizing Multivariate Mutual Information Per Bit

Chung Chan

arxiv:1706.04295 v2 · 2017-06-14 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JTH3ROB3HPKKGGCNIGX44UBU5S}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:03.854255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ccfb8b83b3bd4a3184d41afce5034ec9eb521934e337290e0b210f9565ff759

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.04295 · arxiv_version: 1706.04295v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.04295 · pith_short_12: JTH3ROB3HPKK · pith_short_16: JTH3ROB3HPKKGGCN · pith_short_8: JTH3ROB3

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/JTH3ROB3HPKKGGCNIGX44UBU5S \
  | 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: 4ccfb8b83b3bd4a3184d41afce5034ec9eb521934e337290e0b210f9565ff759

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4ea9abb0959c50a3e28cdeedbc913ef8898d1d4bdc112404448b025c6f9bb65",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-14T02:16:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e4a7f273250ac4ddae27f7b1a6209bbc60fd8e856199d846e906a3852397d4b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.04295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}