Pith Number

pith:5QGVMJLX

pith:2015:5QGVMJLXOLRZXU7W4CEBMVOGUI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Network Traces to System Responses: Opaquely Emulating Software Services

Jean-Guy Schneider, John Grundy, Jun Han, Miao Du, Steve Versteeg

arxiv:1510.01421 v2 · 2015-10-06 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5QGVMJLXOLRZXU7W4CEBMVOGUI}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:54.665303Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec0d56257772e39bd3f6e0881655c6a2277f784094afb71c8390cfc95a27fae9

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.01421 · arxiv_version: 1510.01421v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.01421 · pith_short_12: 5QGVMJLXOLRZ · pith_short_16: 5QGVMJLXOLRZXU7W · pith_short_8: 5QGVMJLX

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/5QGVMJLXOLRZXU7W4CEBMVOGUI \
  | 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: ec0d56257772e39bd3f6e0881655c6a2277f784094afb71c8390cfc95a27fae9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6528acfd0dedd220d0894d0b3f7b6b197e53ffca47fc49ee908287ac43a52111",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-06T03:45:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5cf9099ad602c44964d646f8858cef4f179e54727e8b3d33ccbeaa048e1f95b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.01421",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}