Pith Number

pith:4Z6BMGEP

pith:2014:4Z6BMGEPAUEZYZGZEU2DBHBHNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Peered Bulletin Board for Robust Use in Verifiable Voting Systems

Chris Culnane, Steve Schneider

arxiv:1401.4151 v1 · 2014-01-16 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4Z6BMGEPAUEZYZGZEU2DBHBHNK}

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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	2026-05-18T03:01:57.039160Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e67c16188f05099c64d92534309c276aa0e0c605dd0c8dae60aa6cfcbc054bff

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.4151 · arxiv_version: 1401.4151v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.4151 · pith_short_12: 4Z6BMGEPAUEZ · pith_short_16: 4Z6BMGEPAUEZYZGZ · pith_short_8: 4Z6BMGEP

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/4Z6BMGEPAUEZYZGZEU2DBHBHNK \
  | 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: e67c16188f05099c64d92534309c276aa0e0c605dd0c8dae60aa6cfcbc054bff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f28f4a82db6129d1a584c5c96f7a1750e76071db93a1a37bd036585a028c2b6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-16T20:11:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e587cf3fb8b0436b6c28afed0a8ee7ef5539fd5bad504ff56e7ff138328df34"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.4151",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}