Pith Number

pith:NBHBOGFO

pith:2026:NBHBOGFOWTAXN5VMDKA7MU66ZJ

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Quantum Key Distribution with Imperfections: Recent Advances in Security Proofs

Elizabeth Agudelo, Esteban Vasquez, Gl\'aucia Murta, Matej Pivoluska, Max Riegler, Patrick Andriolo

arxiv:2602.05057 v1 · 2026-02-04 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NBHBOGFOWTAXN5VMDKA7MU66ZJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-22T01:03:56.510009Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

684e1718aeb4c176f6ac1a81f653deca4d2ad75a2f73d588af1070c0a52c32cb

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.05057 · arxiv_version: 2602.05057v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.05057 · pith_short_12: NBHBOGFOWTAX · pith_short_16: NBHBOGFOWTAXN5VM · pith_short_8: NBHBOGFO

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/NBHBOGFOWTAXN5VMDKA7MU66ZJ \
  | 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: 684e1718aeb4c176f6ac1a81f653deca4d2ad75a2f73d588af1070c0a52c32cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c2dfecd25c95ff40905d5f8d4cbe0382d5cf7a0446a7ed59a48b84410af88f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-04T21:16:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d89817ba4e086ce32977bc719e467a83c50ecfb14da6db8fb3841b69b1dae58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.05057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}