Pith Number

pith:5OKEQ3DA

pith:2018:5OKEQ3DA3PDNEF2TT2CGDA6DYM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lost in the Digital Wild: Hiding Information in Digital Activities

Anthony T.S. Ho, Shujun Li, Xinpeng Zhang, Zichi Wang

arxiv:1809.02888 v1 · 2018-09-08 · cs.CR · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5OKEQ3DA3PDNEF2TT2CGDA6DYM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:12.479429Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb94486c60dbc6d217539e846183c3c33df23a8cfd7b074325ce2bb41e94a7e6

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.02888 · arxiv_version: 1809.02888v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.02888 · pith_short_12: 5OKEQ3DA3PDN · pith_short_16: 5OKEQ3DA3PDNEF2T · pith_short_8: 5OKEQ3DA

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/5OKEQ3DA3PDNEF2TT2CGDA6DYM \
  | 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: eb94486c60dbc6d217539e846183c3c33df23a8cfd7b074325ce2bb41e94a7e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c769b699a7143cd9181ac7eb838117b3084e6d1537dbd3ce028dd78efc653c34",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-08T22:21:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14437ce941bfdf9d077b3bccc9b68ffafe9288cd0fec9c00a7cb29e68aec4129"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.02888",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}