Pith Number

pith:LKI4JSSD

pith:1998:LKI4JSSDBF2TA5APLF3NE7MHZK

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Quantum key distribution with authentication

Guihua Zeng, Xinmei Wang

arxiv:quant-ph/9812022 v2 · 1998-12-10 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LKI4JSSDBF2TA5APLF3NE7MHZK}

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4 Citations 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.

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1 paper in Pith

Design and analysis of a set of discrete variable protocols for secure quantum communication

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:47:22.676477Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a91c4ca43097530740f5976d27d87caadb180782a7e7032aba511e129889dff

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9812022 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9812022v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9812022 · pith_short_12: LKI4JSSDBF2T · pith_short_16: LKI4JSSDBF2TA5AP · pith_short_8: LKI4JSSD

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/LKI4JSSDBF2TA5APLF3NE7MHZK \
  | 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: 5a91c4ca43097530740f5976d27d87caadb180782a7e7032aba511e129889dff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80f947e44bdb32179c7614edbed83f3a801f11caa90f6ffa9ad0753a8b635dd9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-12-10T09:18:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90c92c1b912ac3e7ea522a11970bdf9ccd5c8f26f0a79d3c6dd9e824fb0bbec3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9812022",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}