Pith Number

pith:XR45LICK

pith:2005:XR45LICKSLXSGDMYEZFAJ4FCBD

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An Automated Analysis of the Security of Quantum Key Distribution

Garry Bowen, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Rajagopal Nagarajan, Simon Gay

arxiv:cs/0502048 v1 · 2005-02-09 · cs.CR · quant-ph

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\pithnumber{XR45LICKSLXSGDMYEZFAJ4FCBD}

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Beyond the Quantum Promise: A Security Analysis of Classical Control in Quantum Key Distribution

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:24:52.584734Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc79d5a04a92ef230d98264a04f0a208c52d1d89adcada1294bf919ff19195f0

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0502048 · arxiv_version: cs/0502048v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0502048 · pith_short_12: XR45LICKSLXS · pith_short_16: XR45LICKSLXSGDMY · pith_short_8: XR45LICK

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XR45LICKSLXSGDMYEZFAJ4FCBD \
  | 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: bc79d5a04a92ef230d98264a04f0a208c52d1d89adcada1294bf919ff19195f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4425c3231c74d35cf7769a58e648cd6fedf4c2a023f4522335ba9508e0e8995",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2005-02-09T13:49:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7813095c0c02d93ecf42c056b9f734db8e4db2658b97e5e14d810ca8d9fd40a1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0502048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}