Pith Number

pith:WGVFQVCN

pith:2011:WGVFQVCNQF4ZQMWSBMYKETOHWJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information Networks Secured by the Laws of Physics

Ferdinand Peper, Laszlo B. Kish

arxiv:1110.4367 v2 · 2011-10-18 · cs.CR · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WGVFQVCNQF4ZQMWSBMYKETOHWJ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:54:15.034571Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1aa58544d81799832d20b30a24dc7b252c626cb85780388303c2424e7d397b7

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.4367 · arxiv_version: 1110.4367v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.4367 · pith_short_12: WGVFQVCNQF4Z · pith_short_16: WGVFQVCNQF4ZQMWS · pith_short_8: WGVFQVCN

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/WGVFQVCNQF4ZQMWSBMYKETOHWJ \
  | 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: b1aa58544d81799832d20b30a24dc7b252c626cb85780388303c2424e7d397b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48c1df890ddbfd5a796d0a717356bd23f3762de0d7f77a0f0864d55da63cb286",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-18T22:18:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "621e6fd06ab4eff7c25bd8f8f8c80d7a84db441360469e05c51a40700a304004"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.4367",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}