Pith Number

pith:MSQJEC3J

pith:1998:MSQJEC3JWEYFQRNB5LCSCNQGBR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Quick Glance at Quantum Cryptography

Samuel J. Lomonaco

arxiv:quant-ph/9811056 v1 · 1998-11-23 · quant-ph · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MSQJEC3JWEYFQRNB5LCSCNQGBR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:00.367770Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64a0920b69b1305845a1eac52136060c69b335c85a3c5a25aeb8d2cbca58825b

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/9811056 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/9811056v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9811056 · pith_short_12: MSQJEC3JWEYF · pith_short_16: MSQJEC3JWEYFQRNB · pith_short_8: MSQJEC3J

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/MSQJEC3JWEYFQRNB5LCSCNQGBR \
  | 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: 64a0920b69b1305845a1eac52136060c69b335c85a3c5a25aeb8d2cbca58825b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bcfbade11c38a7cce62eb20238adb798f58bfa16c11f050e074ad8c25c22448",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-11-23T04:57:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd40185044dfd90b2bce87f44cbef648afb1265498d25e26f06971db81b546f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/9811056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}