Pith Number

pith:NANTDVPX

pith:2016:NANTDVPXUMGXQ4R62CDY5Z7QWE

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Quantum key distribution protocols with slow basis choice

Kiyoshi Tamaki, Masato Koashi, Toshihiko Sasaki

arxiv:1604.04460 v1 · 2016-04-15 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NANTDVPXUMGXQ4R62CDY5Z7QWE}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:17:02.150218Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

681b31d5f7a30d78723ed0878ee7f0b10d5b7d72e08775df2ac6b5aad5c3aefd

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.04460 · arxiv_version: 1604.04460v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.04460 · pith_short_12: NANTDVPXUMGX · pith_short_16: NANTDVPXUMGXQ4R6 · pith_short_8: NANTDVPX

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/NANTDVPXUMGXQ4R62CDY5Z7QWE \
  | 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: 681b31d5f7a30d78723ed0878ee7f0b10d5b7d72e08775df2ac6b5aad5c3aefd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a51352d633904304a3970843168bfe8aed104c0bff64d950fae6e0a94cf3da5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-15T12:27:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46575263b84d8e4835641e3b06e364f77d09434246599b29520c1dba090859f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.04460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}