Pith Number

pith:V5PYJSOD

pith:2018:V5PYJSOD4XD4PXWKLL62DWKBUF

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Gaussian Random Number Generator: Implemented in FPGA for Quantum Key Distribution

G. C. Wan, S.T. Mei, Yan Wu, Yi Chen, Yue Hu

arxiv:1802.07368 v4 · 2018-02-20 · eess.SP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V5PYJSOD4XD4PXWKLL62DWKBUF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:55:01.010895Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af5f84c9c3e5c7c7deca5afda1d941a1634f26f6f5e797e7a4852892ef679f9d

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.07368 · arxiv_version: 1802.07368v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.07368 · pith_short_12: V5PYJSOD4XD4 · pith_short_16: V5PYJSOD4XD4PXWK · pith_short_8: V5PYJSOD

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/V5PYJSOD4XD4PXWKLL62DWKBUF \
  | 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: af5f84c9c3e5c7c7deca5afda1d941a1634f26f6f5e797e7a4852892ef679f9d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aec66266e7950c37152d90bf02633f2f1e5a442949d5b67edecc1c5a4c6bf968",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.SP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-20T22:54:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "843683b1dbcea909cc888ac9c4b8c38b6016813b19aae8580ae6ba7df71eed1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.07368",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}