Pith Number

pith:4YBNNBPC

pith:2017:4YBNNBPC5ZCS6D3B6SPIG2LHMH

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A Blockchain-based Approach for Data Accountability and Provenance Tracking

Gary Steri, Igor Nai-Fovino, Ricardo Neisse

arxiv:1706.04507 v1 · 2017-06-14 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4YBNNBPC5ZCS6D3B6SPIG2LHMH}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:42:22.447725Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e602d685e2ee452f0f61f49e83696761e42e558d1fc9ffaa9e3363f9e6427908

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.04507 · arxiv_version: 1706.04507v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.04507 · pith_short_12: 4YBNNBPC5ZCS · pith_short_16: 4YBNNBPC5ZCS6D3B · pith_short_8: 4YBNNBPC

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4YBNNBPC5ZCS6D3B6SPIG2LHMH \
  | 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: e602d685e2ee452f0f61f49e83696761e42e558d1fc9ffaa9e3363f9e6427908

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a288f5c9488cd2db5347f4f57a78f06129d45ac044d8cd29a6df3129723e8f62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-14T14:19:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a09b5a3114d403caa5df402793ffafd52b72a7e312f2d706109c2a3ab52eb0b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.04507",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}