Pith Number

pith:47WV45OP

pith:2026:47WV45OPWGGONAYFI7F4XY5RN4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Silent Updates: Measuring and Closing the Post-Deployment Disclosure Gap

Ben Bucknall, Sophia Abraham

arxiv:2608.11803 v1 · 2026-08-12 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{47WV45OPWGGONAYFI7F4XY5RN4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-08-13T01:28:17.219193Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7ed5e75cfb18ce6830547cbcbe3b16f2dbb7d87e3be17863bcc502a28260325

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11803 · arxiv_version: 2608.11803v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11803 · pith_short_12: 47WV45OPWGGO · pith_short_16: 47WV45OPWGGONAYF · pith_short_8: 47WV45OP

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/47WV45OPWGGONAYFI7F4XY5RN4 \
  | 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: e7ed5e75cfb18ce6830547cbcbe3b16f2dbb7d87e3be17863bcc502a28260325

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "75def9e9d4a4900412b2da36495b3fa9888dcaa299b32348ada7d99f3fae34a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T08:45:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db2e2ef4cbebdc9745a44f1b18855fdb603badbe4bdfb2fc96fc8300be9f3846"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11803",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}