Pith Number

pith:WX4244KD

pith:2014:WX4244KDXYBMPOVVXICDPQ66MD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Security of Quantum Key Distribution using a Simplified Trusted Relay

Norbert L\"utkenhaus, Razieh Annabestani, William Stacey, Xiongfeng Ma

arxiv:1408.4426 v1 · 2014-08-19 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WX4244KDXYBMPOVVXICDPQ66MD}

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:29.146358Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5f9ae7143be02c7bab5ba0437c3de60ddc23775be1a6984a73b332a60ad6ea1

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.4426 · arxiv_version: 1408.4426v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.4426 · pith_short_12: WX4244KDXYBM · pith_short_16: WX4244KDXYBMPOVV · pith_short_8: WX4244KD

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/WX4244KDXYBMPOVVXICDPQ66MD \
  | 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: b5f9ae7143be02c7bab5ba0437c3de60ddc23775be1a6984a73b332a60ad6ea1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7dd964460c3c60694a85ff3719b14a64e80bc85736daecffd0179154cd39db3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-19T18:51:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73c117fc58aa9cb06eefe3aaf338c54e5ad1a82b3dd052a2941558b90d8fde0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.4426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}