Pith Number

pith:VWS5MNOC

pith:2016:VWS5MNOCJAPOU3CJNUSGGMU6I3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Asymptotic Analysis of a Three State Quantum Cryptographic Protocol

Walter O. Krawec

arxiv:1601.00185 v2 · 2016-01-02 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWS5MNOCJAPOU3CJNUSGGMU6I3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:59.640942Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ada5d635c2481eea6c496d2463329e46d3ad1222aacaa1a86a436adec8a0f454

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.00185 · arxiv_version: 1601.00185v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.00185 · pith_short_12: VWS5MNOCJAPO · pith_short_16: VWS5MNOCJAPOU3CJ · pith_short_8: VWS5MNOC

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/VWS5MNOCJAPOU3CJNUSGGMU6I3 \
  | 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: ada5d635c2481eea6c496d2463329e46d3ad1222aacaa1a86a436adec8a0f454

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2f1b07d32a07710f90d41a130d6c379ef2cbdd6669205dd9b823df6d179ad31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-02T16:06:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b472c36e3c69fccb5f6e2b331b06e8a3a5b98c0fefbe37f0956b93ea4da9d32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.00185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}