Pith Number

pith:3MD5KVDZ

pith:2012:3MD5KVDZJRH5UMZ4YMGWNHEV4X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Novel Technique for Secret Message / Image Transmission through (2, 2)Visual Cryptographic Protocol (SMITVCP)

J. K. Mandal, S. Ghatak

arxiv:1212.3370 v1 · 2012-12-13 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3MD5KVDZJRH5UMZ4YMGWNHEV4X}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:38:24.843592Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db07d554794c4fda333cc30d669c95e5daa0fe1978cbe2cc8d8e4a39d4b0de96

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.3370 · arxiv_version: 1212.3370v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.3370 · pith_short_12: 3MD5KVDZJRH5 · pith_short_16: 3MD5KVDZJRH5UMZ4 · pith_short_8: 3MD5KVDZ

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/3MD5KVDZJRH5UMZ4YMGWNHEV4X \
  | 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: db07d554794c4fda333cc30d669c95e5daa0fe1978cbe2cc8d8e4a39d4b0de96

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f35047874af4d411fd48ae80526a3f949d2f24e0ae14d8902b17bb037d4261c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-13T23:54:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ea7f21d88c3181e1ca1c2e734790f36f99aca7577f5f2aec165bc497ba48bee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.3370",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}