Pith Number

pith:4AZDJPNW

pith:2016:4AZDJPNW5SR7SFDQBZ343HGWVI

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Using Reed-Solomon codes in the $\left( U\mid U+V\right)$ construction and an application to cryptography

Irene M\'arquez-Corbella, Jean-Pierre Tillich

arxiv:1601.08227 v1 · 2016-01-29 · cs.CR · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4AZDJPNW5SR7SFDQBZ343HGWVI}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:21:40.045556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e03234bdb6eca3f914700e77cd9cd6aa30c941b947352613e7dcf7169cd71855

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.08227 · arxiv_version: 1601.08227v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.08227 · pith_short_12: 4AZDJPNW5SR7 · pith_short_16: 4AZDJPNW5SR7SFDQ · pith_short_8: 4AZDJPNW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4AZDJPNW5SR7SFDQBZ343HGWVI \
  | 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: e03234bdb6eca3f914700e77cd9cd6aa30c941b947352613e7dcf7169cd71855

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07c46a9db638522a919f71ffbd9c91ec66b61d24441dbfd284d779931a05672a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-29T19:30:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4fd6c8ba5120946cdc5070c4cd903f748804c146e10a005c7b9a9c845d0dd98e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.08227",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}