Pith Number

pith:OKMKGNW5

pith:2014:OKMKGNW5SGMZKPZW7DBKPTWOT3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Universal security for randomness expansion from the spot-checking protocol

Carl A. Miller, Yaoyun Shi

arxiv:1411.6608 v3 · 2014-11-24 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OKMKGNW5SGMZKPZW7DBKPTWOT3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:54.985204Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7298a336dd9199953f36f8c2a7cece9ecf4e4dcdddd29d60900521ac0a3d6512

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.6608 · arxiv_version: 1411.6608v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.6608 · pith_short_12: OKMKGNW5SGMZ · pith_short_16: OKMKGNW5SGMZKPZW · pith_short_8: OKMKGNW5

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/OKMKGNW5SGMZKPZW7DBKPTWOT3 \
  | 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: 7298a336dd9199953f36f8c2a7cece9ecf4e4dcdddd29d60900521ac0a3d6512

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d874f6fe10eea5ee4c74383c9d5b9cdbd658b30e9f0eafbac73930f4f2beb90",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-24T20:47:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc3d741f5a6d1155e22a163f4434a3b20c3fd54c38a696abd7026da0ae21a4d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.6608",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}