Pith Number

pith:4XYSEWUQ

pith:2014:4XYSEWUQDPL2LTTPDC56PLJWAC

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The Mason Test: A Defense Against Sybil Attacks in Wireless Networks Without Trusted Authorities

Dan S. Wallach, David R. Bild, Robert P. Dick, Yue Liu, Z. Morley Mao

arxiv:1403.5871 v1 · 2014-03-24 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4XYSEWUQDPL2LTTPDC56PLJWAC}

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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	2026-05-18T02:55:47.558674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5f1225a901bd7a5ce6f18bbe7ad3600b6a28439887355cd6c7d8b2067121ffa

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.5871 · arxiv_version: 1403.5871v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.5871 · pith_short_12: 4XYSEWUQDPL2 · pith_short_16: 4XYSEWUQDPL2LTTP · pith_short_8: 4XYSEWUQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4XYSEWUQDPL2LTTPDC56PLJWAC \
  | 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: e5f1225a901bd7a5ce6f18bbe7ad3600b6a28439887355cd6c7d8b2067121ffa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c139cc39b12ea4ac97acdf8d433aef6f14160e9fa8dad72ef8ed0322d1a47b06",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-24T07:21:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1080065083482bfdae9cfac87454e3daa68ae07fc18a0578198964aeabd82779"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.5871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}