Pith Number

pith:XQAV543K

pith:2024:XQAV543KDRN7YNWDGI3R5QUNA6

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The Future of QKD Networks

Alin-Bogdan Popa, Pantelimon George Popescu

arxiv:2407.00877 v1 · 2024-07-01 · cs.NI · cs.CR · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQAV543KDRN7YNWDGI3R5QUNA6}

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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	2026-07-05T08:38:25.836724Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc015ef36a1c5bfc36c332371ec28d0797239620a0f2e18b2058c4298bf9eda9

Aliases

arxiv: 2407.00877 · arxiv_version: 2407.00877v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.00877 · pith_short_12: XQAV543KDRN7 · pith_short_16: XQAV543KDRN7YNWD · pith_short_8: XQAV543K

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/XQAV543KDRN7YNWDGI3R5QUNA6 \
  | 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: bc015ef36a1c5bfc36c332371ec28d0797239620a0f2e18b2058c4298bf9eda9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8bbc383cd616e3aa2355a36b9d444cf0faf02ce7bee0987de07819857380f72d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2024-07-01T00:56:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e5287d43ff18e311f75d5242802e406f579ac8d6c66640f71ae5e2d72fa48d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2407.00877",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}