Pith Number

pith:XVFNTLB7

pith:2011:XVFNTLB7M24SDF7EOM52NKTCXJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Practical Quantum Bit Commitment Protocol

S. Arash Sheikholeslam, T. Aaron Gulliver

arxiv:1111.6311 v3 · 2011-11-27 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XVFNTLB7M24SDF7EOM52NKTCXJ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:57.442920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd4ad9ac3f66b92197e4733ba6aa62ba42d09379b176fe4a260445c99e583e13

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.6311 · arxiv_version: 1111.6311v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.6311 · pith_short_12: XVFNTLB7M24S · pith_short_16: XVFNTLB7M24SDF7E · pith_short_8: XVFNTLB7

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/XVFNTLB7M24SDF7EOM52NKTCXJ \
  | 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: bd4ad9ac3f66b92197e4733ba6aa62ba42d09379b176fe4a260445c99e583e13

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "461392918e9a0c1414ca2265ae95f84e9538123538717a80549336a962b40bdf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-27T22:39:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65e18a0233feeba46ae2d34198ae6f4e1ea9548e60be668b60bd5e7722ad7195"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.6311",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}