Pith Number

pith:56VOWCXI

pith:2016:56VOWCXIHDOXJJNINDLODV2G2H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Privacy-Preserving Shortest Path Computation

David J. Wu, J\'er\'emy Planul, Joe Zimmerman, John C. Mitchell

arxiv:1601.02281 v1 · 2016-01-10 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{56VOWCXIHDOXJJNINDLODV2G2H}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:06.806875Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efaaeb0ae838dd74a5a868d6e1d746d1eb0617156c59a8c5b747e5636aa1f8a6

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.02281 · arxiv_version: 1601.02281v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.02281 · pith_short_12: 56VOWCXIHDOX · pith_short_16: 56VOWCXIHDOXJJNI · pith_short_8: 56VOWCXI

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/56VOWCXIHDOXJJNINDLODV2G2H \
  | 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: efaaeb0ae838dd74a5a868d6e1d746d1eb0617156c59a8c5b747e5636aa1f8a6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "989ad5717e1ddbe0e633b9f854c387dab3c177e9d5d966acadbf8ed7e3298cbe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-10T23:49:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b2528e028003d115f64b837cfca796916f36080d041c5fb7ae3b27480440546f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.02281",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}