Pith Number

pith:2ZI6CDXR

pith:2018:2ZI6CDXRFOX6KRBIPLXBKXZSJL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scrambled Linear Pseudorandom Number Generators

David Blackman, Sebastiano Vigna

arxiv:1805.01407 v3 · 2018-05-03 · cs.DS · cs.CR · cs.MS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2ZI6CDXRFOX6KRBIPLXBKXZSJL}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T04:08:55.160460Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d651e10ef12bafe544287aee155f324ac75f2f5a9294a32fdc0044ee764eabfc

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.01407 · arxiv_version: 1805.01407v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01407 · pith_short_12: 2ZI6CDXRFOX6 · pith_short_16: 2ZI6CDXRFOX6KRBI · pith_short_8: 2ZI6CDXR

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/2ZI6CDXRFOX6KRBIPLXBKXZSJL \
  | 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: d651e10ef12bafe544287aee155f324ac75f2f5a9294a32fdc0044ee764eabfc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5998f002ec5d69f6b9a1230788efa55c412413c2a727a102d0b0e5b7ef88dc88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.MS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-03T16:22:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "517449625ffa9ad740aac5561c217d621157a538b369995cadc313c789e08a26"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.01407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}