Pith Number

pith:2CD5LHWT

pith:2011:2CD5LHWTO35KYRAFTUNXAAD2NV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Contest Between Simplicity and Efficiency in Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement

Allison Lewko

arxiv:1106.5170 v2 · 2011-06-25 · cs.DC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2CD5LHWTO35KYRAFTUNXAAD2NV}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T04:18:44.330740Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d087d59ed376faac44059d1b70007a6d6e45fd88b373efae5bc477bd90b15160

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.5170 · arxiv_version: 1106.5170v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.5170 · pith_short_12: 2CD5LHWTO35K · pith_short_16: 2CD5LHWTO35KYRAF · pith_short_8: 2CD5LHWT

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/2CD5LHWTO35KYRAFTUNXAAD2NV \
  | 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: d087d59ed376faac44059d1b70007a6d6e45fd88b373efae5bc477bd90b15160

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4981d5ca4a49751190bfa0340c6388c1b1d2c406e49a4702729f3086ca856ce5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-25T20:53:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a2589d3a4b0fbb29a3beb633ddbc394ae5286b16f80e3bb618a027e2579b463"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.5170",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}