Pith Number

pith:MUQ5LMW3

pith:2010:MUQ5LMW3TYXEICYAKQH7Y4UP25

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Finite-key security against coherent attacks in quantum key distribution

Lana Sheridan, Thinh Phuc Le, Valerio Scarani

arxiv:1008.2596 v1 · 2010-08-16 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MUQ5LMW3TYXEICYAKQH7Y4UP25}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T04:30:14.097243Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6521d5b2db9e2e440b00540ffc728fd75f55928fb6b4fd8f84b894f5161fcbbf

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.2596 · arxiv_version: 1008.2596v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.2596 · pith_short_12: MUQ5LMW3TYXE · pith_short_16: MUQ5LMW3TYXEICYA · pith_short_8: MUQ5LMW3

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MUQ5LMW3TYXEICYAKQH7Y4UP25 \
  | 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: 6521d5b2db9e2e440b00540ffc728fd75f55928fb6b4fd8f84b894f5161fcbbf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db3ff3f26c3f3ab678c41d863f657e06af5e9ec2e6b39ca8a0db480326ed276a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-16T08:41:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b79abdfc3b9d1d4964b5d7504d77a547c00cc29b3c0d1f3ee7e038f8298ad552"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.2596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}