Pith Number

pith:KBS6LMSQ

pith:2023:KBS6LMSQJC6QLAGUMM56TUYFOX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantified Effects of the Laser Seeding Attack in Quantum Key Distribution

Andrew J. Shields, Davide G. Marangon, Peter. R. Smith, Robert I. Woodward, Victor Lovic

arxiv:2310.17803 v1 · 2023-10-26 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBS6LMSQJC6QLAGUMM56TUYFOX}

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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	2026-07-05T07:05:52.952792Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5065e5b25048bd0580d4633be9d30575c1f0f18eb74992e5cc026ab29b2558ed

Aliases

arxiv: 2310.17803 · arxiv_version: 2310.17803v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.17803 · pith_short_12: KBS6LMSQJC6Q · pith_short_16: KBS6LMSQJC6QLAGU · pith_short_8: KBS6LMSQ

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/KBS6LMSQJC6QLAGUMM56TUYFOX \
  | 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: 5065e5b25048bd0580d4633be9d30575c1f0f18eb74992e5cc026ab29b2558ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ee6b7b1097b59055caf0501d503d68f26bce3f60bd2f622f425a09dbf9f8ccd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-10-26T22:34:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9bafdc77ba362291f0c6e18e17d2824c6a89a437e4069b1d7e9a44fa76910aa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2310.17803",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}