Pith Number

pith:MYKEIRGJ

pith:2023:MYKEIRGJRBHLHPK3AZWUIGWAMQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum key distribution in a packet-switched network

Alireza Shabani, Bing Qi, Reem Mandil, Stephen Diadamo

arxiv:2302.14005 v1 · 2023-02-27 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MYKEIRGJRBHLHPK3AZWUIGWAMQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T05:45:53.362566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66144444c9884eb3bd5b066d441ac0640dafb6160bd039317d90d2f9b7e1d595

Aliases

arxiv: 2302.14005 · arxiv_version: 2302.14005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.14005 · pith_short_12: MYKEIRGJRBHL · pith_short_16: MYKEIRGJRBHLHPK3 · pith_short_8: MYKEIRGJ

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/MYKEIRGJRBHLHPK3AZWUIGWAMQ \
  | 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: 66144444c9884eb3bd5b066d441ac0640dafb6160bd039317d90d2f9b7e1d595

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3713ee217dde9f5ec9781aae1191b627bc57ae80dd463bfdb9822150a5efe11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-02-27T17:48:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9dcf0093dcf4a75ac76bc7e92ed2ed4f7250e0d4f5f93ff3f7acfd65a103fd0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2302.14005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}