Pith Number

pith:WRMMJVUP

pith:2005:WRMMJVUPZWHQILXNEICM2CLAXZ

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On the security of AlphaEta: Response to `Some attacks on quantum-based cryptographic protocols'

Eric Corndorf, Gregory S. Kanter, Horace P. Yuen, Prem Kumar, Ranjith Nair

arxiv:quant-ph/0509091 v3 · 2005-09-13 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WRMMJVUPZWHQILXNEICM2CLAXZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:03.119034Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b458c4d68fcd8f042eed2204cd0960be537bc5aa5b9558f4ce864c3a7149dcb1

Aliases

arxiv: quant-ph/0509091 · arxiv_version: quant-ph/0509091v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0509091 · pith_short_12: WRMMJVUPZWHQ · pith_short_16: WRMMJVUPZWHQILXN · pith_short_8: WRMMJVUP

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/WRMMJVUPZWHQILXNEICM2CLAXZ \
  | 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: b458c4d68fcd8f042eed2204cd0960be537bc5aa5b9558f4ce864c3a7149dcb1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b50e60e98c59b1efd8f6cc95befdf5e75abdf43c2970e1fd2d844ca32ee9a138",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-09-13T23:00:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ac47eb4f2a2e94b19fc07d3aedcd6ff6a2baa03bf91406d05e29592050be171"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "quant-ph/0509091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}