Pith Number

pith:4DRYEHOZ

pith:2016:4DRYEHOZXRIX5DYLVVBVJR6HSK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Power of Statistical Zero Knowledge

Adam Bouland, Dhiraj Holden, Justin Thaler, Lijie Chen, Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

arxiv:1609.02888 v4 · 2016-09-09 · cs.CC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4DRYEHOZXRIX5DYLVVBVJR6HSK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:52.310084Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0e3821dd9bc517e8f0bad4354c7c792a40cf0ac565dff0959be124fdb5f0a3f

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.02888 · arxiv_version: 1609.02888v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.02888 · pith_short_12: 4DRYEHOZXRIX · pith_short_16: 4DRYEHOZXRIX5DYL · pith_short_8: 4DRYEHOZ

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/4DRYEHOZXRIX5DYLVVBVJR6HSK \
  | 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: e0e3821dd9bc517e8f0bad4354c7c792a40cf0ac565dff0959be124fdb5f0a3f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "176ba6a4f7a79b7de1dc46e1e55fa13f1ebe82d53fc3af15d6198bc4a7c2c30e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-09T18:49:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b2b53aa6b6bc6061f33e93fbe26df90459982a4f520a71d09ada732e2c09969"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.02888",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}