Pith Number

pith:5D5DFJMQ

pith:2025:5D5DFJMQIWGUT52QUFPQ7QIJ7Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Aggregating Digital Identities through Bridging. An Integration of Open Authentication Protocols for Web3 Identifiers

Ben Biedermann, Joshua Ellul, Matthew Scerri, Victoria Kozlova

arxiv:2501.13770 v1 · 2025-01-23 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5D5DFJMQIWGUT52QUFPQ7QIJ7Z}

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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	2026-07-05T10:04:33.841914Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8fa32a590458d49f750a15f0fc109fe51c6e9d431b5bedb9360dfb603677d8a

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.13770 · arxiv_version: 2501.13770v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.13770 · pith_short_12: 5D5DFJMQIWGU · pith_short_16: 5D5DFJMQIWGUT52Q · pith_short_8: 5D5DFJMQ

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/5D5DFJMQIWGUT52QUFPQ7QIJ7Z \
  | 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: e8fa32a590458d49f750a15f0fc109fe51c6e9d431b5bedb9360dfb603677d8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bdf8b6b16a69052cbff7a64c922d878c18cf2d8839416c91cf09473935416a84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-23T15:48:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae1fd67027046edc6fc9ec5800cc1ba5bd5deb5cfd415365a1fe7f3d9fe8cea2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.13770",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}