Pith Number

pith:XHZEFIVN

pith:2015:XHZEFIVNO5DCHW27DGAUEAVNWX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantum McEliece public-key encryption scheme

Li Yang, Min Liang

arxiv:1501.04895 v1 · 2015-01-19 · quant-ph · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XHZEFIVNO5DCHW27DGAUEAVNWX}

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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	2026-05-18T02:29:02.034332Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9f242a2ad774623db5f19814202adb5d96f87774414b217ccf7caf28d064468

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.04895 · arxiv_version: 1501.04895v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.04895 · pith_short_12: XHZEFIVNO5DC · pith_short_16: XHZEFIVNO5DCHW27 · pith_short_8: XHZEFIVN

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/XHZEFIVNO5DCHW27DGAUEAVNWX \
  | 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: b9f242a2ad774623db5f19814202adb5d96f87774414b217ccf7caf28d064468

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ef74f83bd3d26750730f6b8120f10b48f17f0e97dd47cbdfd01fb3f76535b2bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-19T08:32:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02fd8641a7156613bd5183b9db82693afa2d65226043917657526101b898f0dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.04895",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}