Pith Number

pith:4NU5S3IT

pith:2026:4NU5S3ITKMIMFTJ7IAWPKNIMTJ

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Correctness, confidence, and context: Framing software assurance in the AI age

Mary Shaw

arxiv:2607.04667 v1 · 2026-07-06 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4NU5S3ITKMIMFTJ7IAWPKNIMTJ}

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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	2026-07-07T02:19:30.583341Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e369d96d135310c2cd3f402cf5350c9a71e66300b5aac2275abc7cc5fe8f635b

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.04667 · arxiv_version: 2607.04667v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.04667 · pith_short_12: 4NU5S3ITKMIM · pith_short_16: 4NU5S3ITKMIMFTJ7 · pith_short_8: 4NU5S3IT

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/4NU5S3ITKMIMFTJ7IAWPKNIMTJ \
  | 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: e369d96d135310c2cd3f402cf5350c9a71e66300b5aac2275abc7cc5fe8f635b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "baa3a89d4391c3740a94b949d08e12edf20dee704dcc3f2966dae63c18886246",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-06T04:49:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "603afeebc5e31070ea0652d106b93485012111251f45410a7ba11702206ea1f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.04667",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}