Pith Number

pith:LPFFQT3D

pith:2012:LPFFQT3DYG562GKJNP5UHLKNW6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fundamental Security Issues in Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution

Horace P. Yuen

arxiv:1208.5827 v1 · 2012-08-29 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LPFFQT3DYG562GKJNP5UHLKNW6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:59:35.626684Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5bca584f63c1bbed19496bfb43ad4db7b596f8e869cd0d7f6315426c5850b764

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.5827 · arxiv_version: 1208.5827v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.5827 · pith_short_12: LPFFQT3DYG56 · pith_short_16: LPFFQT3DYG562GKJ · pith_short_8: LPFFQT3D

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/LPFFQT3DYG562GKJNP5UHLKNW6 \
  | 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: 5bca584f63c1bbed19496bfb43ad4db7b596f8e869cd0d7f6315426c5850b764

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91e540b7d16d6093593135aafa28776e6997444b1bde081d917eddf1f065f263",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-29T03:20:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94b8d94c123765440f07caef16227a44e0c0221d7a9045a96b4efa42908b9f81"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.5827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}