Pith Number

pith:ZYCFINIF

pith:2016:ZYCFINIFZQEGFSZZBM5BYTRFID

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Analysis of coherent quantum cryptography protocol vulnerability to an active beam-splitting attack

A.K. Fedorov, D.A. Kronberg, E.O. Kiktenko, Y.V. Kurochkin

arxiv:1611.04112 v3 · 2016-11-13 · quant-ph · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYCFINIFZQEGFSZZBM5BYTRFID}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:40:13.629448Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce04543505cc0862cb390b3a1c4e2540d95ea9c45968e1c94bc1f0fd9bbe3dbf

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.04112 · arxiv_version: 1611.04112v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.04112 · pith_short_12: ZYCFINIFZQEG · pith_short_16: ZYCFINIFZQEGFSZZ · pith_short_8: ZYCFINIF

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/ZYCFINIFZQEGFSZZBM5BYTRFID \
  | 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: ce04543505cc0862cb390b3a1c4e2540d95ea9c45968e1c94bc1f0fd9bbe3dbf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad2d56e33db8b31eff63751471bcad5b788911a5a57a8045c52b7f8f86ccad8d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-13T10:59:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3eaafc20d2afab46c3d53e2570db01e90ce4ede864962224f0a1987212b0324a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.04112",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}