Pith Number

pith:T63NIJ3T

pith:2002:T63NIJ3TU3POF7YTFJVOE4KFJO

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Fast, efficient error reconciliation for quantum cryptography

C. G. Peterson, C. H. Donahue, G. H. Nickel, J. R. Torgerson, S. K. Lamoreaux, W. T. Buttler

arxiv:quant-ph/0203096 v2 · 2002-03-19 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T63NIJ3TU3POF7YTFJVOE4KFJO}

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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	2026-07-04T16:36:01.156511Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9fb6d42773a6dee2ff132a6ae271454bbd220aba3d06c7b9912dba24dd63d3ac

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0203096 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0203096v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0203096 · pith_short_12: T63NIJ3TU3PO · pith_short_16: T63NIJ3TU3POF7YT · pith_short_8: T63NIJ3T

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/T63NIJ3TU3POF7YTFJVOE4KFJO \
  | 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: 9fb6d42773a6dee2ff132a6ae271454bbd220aba3d06c7b9912dba24dd63d3ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d932fda3c1916b6107345ba1cbf250d3f94614e1a14ac6bb16a4445be620c92",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-03-19T17:27:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6508896db5172648ef0fe16e26365b62685912363a4acbe8400a17610bf6ed8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0203096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}