Pith Number

pith:K3KI5WQM

pith:2019:K3KI5WQMX2UMJGNMTDU6KBXHLL

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Cryptographic One-way Function Based on Boson Sampling

Georgios M. Nikolopoulos

arxiv:1907.01788 v1 · 2019-07-03 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K3KI5WQMX2UMJGNMTDU6KBXHLL}

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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	2026-05-17T23:40:38.578827Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

56d48eda0cbea8c499ac98e9e506e75ad79fd53262ad9b1ac629f75e5ae5a02b

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.01788 · arxiv_version: 1907.01788v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.01788 · pith_short_12: K3KI5WQMX2UM · pith_short_16: K3KI5WQMX2UMJGNM · pith_short_8: K3KI5WQM

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/K3KI5WQMX2UMJGNMTDU6KBXHLL \
  | 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: 56d48eda0cbea8c499ac98e9e506e75ad79fd53262ad9b1ac629f75e5ae5a02b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "26d55904a57f0ab67b5f1ad3d7457ff6c6146733076f077f501100ce9833543c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-03T08:16:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "259893af08057be0f5ad58166f037e51e9ecf8c1dd54feaae9f5ab275925907b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.01788",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}