Pith Number

pith:SY6KALQB

pith:2021:SY6KALQBVAT5HKUFH256IDYLAQ

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Post-Quantum VRF and its Applications in Future-Proof Blockchain System

JianYing Zhou, Pawel Szalachowski, Teik Guan Tan, Vishal Sharma, Zengpeng Li

arxiv:2109.02012 v1 · 2021-09-05 · cs.CR · cs.CY · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SY6KALQBVAT5HKUFH256IDYLAQ}

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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	2026-07-05T03:11:37.491976Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

963ca02e01a827d3aa853ebbe40f0b0415597f39e43dcfb6ac38b86a71bcda41

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.02012 · arxiv_version: 2109.02012v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.02012 · pith_short_12: SY6KALQBVAT5 · pith_short_16: SY6KALQBVAT5HKUF · pith_short_8: SY6KALQB

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/SY6KALQBVAT5HKUFH256IDYLAQ \
  | 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: 963ca02e01a827d3aa853ebbe40f0b0415597f39e43dcfb6ac38b86a71bcda41

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7e8fe8d841aa94c0c49b1dd598e30ceafdc77f263e3ef922ea4efa1711bc8429",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-05T07:10:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cf4a19b544e08360aea306cebd5028f69c8929230c65f0cd76c1abb3acbf428"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.02012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}