Pith Number

pith:VK5SSQ4K

pith:2025:VK5SSQ4KHNV6MDZJKEHUG752YO

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Pseudorandom quantum authentication

Dax Enshan Koh, Kishor Bharti, Nikhil Bansal, Tobias Haug, Wai-Keong Mok

arxiv:2501.00951 v1 · 2025-01-01 · quant-ph · cs.CC · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VK5SSQ4KHNV6MDZJKEHUG752YO}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Efficient witnessing and testing of magic in mixed quantum states

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:56:12.352207Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aabb29438a3b6be60f29510f437fbac38385b7b37a6476209fcd537523dddb86

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.00951 · arxiv_version: 2501.00951v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.00951 · pith_short_12: VK5SSQ4KHNV6 · pith_short_16: VK5SSQ4KHNV6MDZJ · pith_short_8: VK5SSQ4K

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/VK5SSQ4KHNV6MDZJKEHUG752YO \
  | 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: aabb29438a3b6be60f29510f437fbac38385b7b37a6476209fcd537523dddb86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d8b36b1706699c77d2a195d263010cb65d4dd2d35e0d4d7e579ab5c6b9d0f49",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-01T20:46:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b51dd998d0c1ee804c9f9475ca0d8fa8551d8348896198ee5c0322757a23119"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.00951",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}