Pith Number

pith:M25UBMEN

pith:2000:M25UBMENU7CKEYRPLOASEGXKLQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum authentication and key distribution using catalysis

Jens G Jensen, Ruediger Schack (Royal Holloway, University of London)

arxiv:quant-ph/0003104 v3 · 2000-03-22 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M25UBMENU7CKEYRPLOASEGXKLQ}

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Record completeness

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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.

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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	2026-07-04T14:45:27.298301Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66bb40b08da7c4a2622f5b81221aea5c0307648cc7ca2b0cfa6bb642d205b289

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0003104 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0003104v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0003104 · pith_short_12: M25UBMENU7CK · pith_short_16: M25UBMENU7CKEYRP · pith_short_8: M25UBMEN

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/M25UBMENU7CKEYRPLOASEGXKLQ \
  | 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: 66bb40b08da7c4a2622f5b81221aea5c0307648cc7ca2b0cfa6bb642d205b289

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7b850600a553c8eaccd310690ee9c7f8cf0ffdc10545c7b9fabca1186d16d45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-03-22T13:43:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a79f039c258b52c773cecbfde9ad4c11ad3d784baa15be05e459d43677d4c03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0003104",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}