Pith Number

pith:RPQBILPZ

pith:2025:RPQBILPZ5R4ZEHEI4N6KKLK26M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Post-Quantum Cryptography Authentication for Quantum Key Distribution

Juan Antonio Vieira Giestinhas, Timothy Spiller

arxiv:2507.21325 v1 · 2025-07-28 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RPQBILPZ5R4ZEHEI4N6KKLK26M}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Authentication in Quantum Networks

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:44:57.676299Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8be0142df9ec79921c88e37ca52d5af313a371936ad290331b540969e6e73ac1

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.21325 · arxiv_version: 2507.21325v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.21325 · pith_short_12: RPQBILPZ5R4Z · pith_short_16: RPQBILPZ5R4ZEHEI · pith_short_8: RPQBILPZ

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/RPQBILPZ5R4ZEHEI4N6KKLK26M \
  | 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: 8be0142df9ec79921c88e37ca52d5af313a371936ad290331b540969e6e73ac1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "710a2ad0b37171b20eb83c9be83f793705c35c354ee8f3d38c5ecc5f99374c9d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-28T20:40:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26cc79771eba34986f88ddbafcd5e66526c47a7ddede945d33dc83f1c2825ef6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.21325",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}