Pith Number

pith:4XCXZMJU

pith:2017:4XCXZMJUZHMDJURVPXCEIZQX7P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Yet Another Pseudorandom Number Generator

Borislav Stoyanov, Krasimir Kordov, Krzysztof Szczypiorski

arxiv:1702.07502 v1 · 2017-02-24 · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4XCXZMJUZHMDJURVPXCEIZQX7P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:36.730232Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5c57cb134c9d834d2357dc4446617fbc353cf6ec604d873997f216715df0cfc

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.07502 · arxiv_version: 1702.07502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.07502 · pith_short_12: 4XCXZMJUZHMD · pith_short_16: 4XCXZMJUZHMDJURV · pith_short_8: 4XCXZMJU

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/4XCXZMJUZHMDJURVPXCEIZQX7P \
  | 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: e5c57cb134c9d834d2357dc4446617fbc353cf6ec604d873997f216715df0cfc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1bda369ea06107064465aa3a9ece0ff6813095ab2d5dc7af5fafc1b352cebc44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-24T09:11:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3ca05b4cb457e54e005f18329c64e486c455857da2f5d8dd3c4938e1427c0cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.07502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}