Pith Number

pith:26MQOI7B

pith:2012:26MQOI7BZWXTP4EXXA4U6LAI7D

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Confidentiality of Information Dispersal Algorithms and Their Erasure Codes

Mingqiang Li

arxiv:1206.4123 v2 · 2012-06-19 · cs.IT · cs.CR · cs.DC · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{26MQOI7BZWXTP4EXXA4U6LAI7D}

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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	2026-05-18T02:21:08.870185Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d7990723e1cdaf37f097b8394f2c08f8e6067fca1d5e9f641ab897a1727b2ec5

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.4123 · arxiv_version: 1206.4123v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.4123 · pith_short_12: 26MQOI7BZWXT · pith_short_16: 26MQOI7BZWXTP4EX · pith_short_8: 26MQOI7B

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/26MQOI7BZWXTP4EXXA4U6LAI7D \
  | 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: d7990723e1cdaf37f097b8394f2c08f8e6067fca1d5e9f641ab897a1727b2ec5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07ce86177b8b93e5b46d1e4f2a52317a64ac5a55918b4f1eeab7a9bcada3c222",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.DC",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-19T05:01:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32b236c88f0c77adf7667e4e5c63a961947c82aedb4c8f17764b6edc326a2ce2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.4123",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}