Pith Number

pith:LFOLJ44G

pith:2018:LFOLJ44GWWSSG6U3VKYIWVMMIX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum man-in-the-middle attack on the calibration process of quantum key distribution

Hong Wang, Ming Gao, Xiang-Dong Meng, Yang-Yang Fei, Zhi Ma

arxiv:1803.04407 v1 · 2018-03-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LFOLJ44GWWSSG6U3VKYIWVMMIX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:19.112389Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

595cb4f386b5a5237a9baab08b558c45da83f9e601c2c5e5129845d83eb745a5

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.04407 · arxiv_version: 1803.04407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.04407 · pith_short_12: LFOLJ44GWWSS · pith_short_16: LFOLJ44GWWSSG6U3 · pith_short_8: LFOLJ44G

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/LFOLJ44GWWSSG6U3VKYIWVMMIX \
  | 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: 595cb4f386b5a5237a9baab08b558c45da83f9e601c2c5e5129845d83eb745a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bde213b3df5582574e2db81eda53745a6c3dadf8e50d768eaabcc339aabfbd71",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-10T02:43:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fdf76663be35d6f861ebc659629fa5d70ba9389bce8368571fa8d00ba6127101"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.04407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}