Pith Number

pith:4OK252B3

pith:2018:4OK252B37LNHIHDKQBX7PI34VK

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An experiment in distributed Internet address management using blockchains

Alberto Garc\'ia-Mart\'inez, Bingyang Liu, Chuang Wang, Marcelo Bagnulo, Stefano Angieri, Zhiwei Yan

arxiv:1807.10528 v1 · 2018-07-27 · cs.NI · cs.CR

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:09:40.322529Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e395aee83bfada741c6a806ff7a37caab22c3a5a42d0fe5f44a0388e864e001d

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.10528 · arxiv_version: 1807.10528v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.10528 · pith_short_12: 4OK252B37LNH · pith_short_16: 4OK252B37LNHIHDK · pith_short_8: 4OK252B3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4OK252B37LNHIHDKQBX7PI34VK \
  | 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: e395aee83bfada741c6a806ff7a37caab22c3a5a42d0fe5f44a0388e864e001d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eaced48daf00fffffe053e4a65d5c5327cbd5630283da8bc205569b363f57a82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-27T10:51:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e21a547a6efe6ff7a7edcb09b8ff2d0e82b84d86a46e24160d137de9969782ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.10528",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}