Pith Number

pith:V2ESVP5V

pith:2016:V2ESVP5VBHE6MBVYKIUE4KQXYF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Worst case QC-MDPC decoder for McEliece cryptosystem

Julia Chaulet, Nicolas Sendrier

arxiv:1608.06080 v1 · 2016-08-22 · cs.CR · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V2ESVP5VBHE6MBVYKIUE4KQXYF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:22.355993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae892abfb509c9e606b852284e2a17c176804196d395b10521e2a6306df2c86b

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06080 · arxiv_version: 1608.06080v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06080 · pith_short_12: V2ESVP5VBHE6 · pith_short_16: V2ESVP5VBHE6MBVY · pith_short_8: V2ESVP5V

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/V2ESVP5VBHE6MBVYKIUE4KQXYF \
  | 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: ae892abfb509c9e606b852284e2a17c176804196d395b10521e2a6306df2c86b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe45b65f0ecaf9be3f57950372bdacb46c0df4f88b977f8246cc42213239f924",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-22T08:27:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d13a67822bcf967bc81926ee54412352d835c88f7441a785193ff6b79638af1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.06080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}