Pith Number

pith:WTWXOLQ7

pith:2012:WTWXOLQ7AGTZZPMECHHTWIPCG6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Experimental implementation of bit commitment in the noisy-storage model

Chen Ming Chia, Christian Kurtsiefer, Nelly Huei Ying Ng, Siddarth Koduru Joshi, Stephanie Wehner

arxiv:1205.3331 v3 · 2012-05-15 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WTWXOLQ7AGTZZPMECHHTWIPCG6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:51:57.287272Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4ed772e1f01a79cbd8411cf3b21e2378834333f490ec4779da2bcbc68164006

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.3331 · arxiv_version: 1205.3331v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.3331 · pith_short_12: WTWXOLQ7AGTZ · pith_short_16: WTWXOLQ7AGTZZPME · pith_short_8: WTWXOLQ7

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/WTWXOLQ7AGTZZPMECHHTWIPCG6 \
  | 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: b4ed772e1f01a79cbd8411cf3b21e2378834333f490ec4779da2bcbc68164006

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4970bc0e7ef75eaaf417031f7399b684bc1d2200c9f0ae8a9380be0b53a51a52",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-15T11:25:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ec6917fabf0c87c3bd5c0d96f238932f641991528587b2db367c16825eef16e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.3331",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}