Pith Number

pith:5QLNZUSV

pith:2016:5QLNZUSVN4XXM4FLP2RZN65ODC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Password Generators: Old Ideas and New

Chris J Mitchell, Fatma AL Maqbali

arxiv:1607.04421 v1 · 2016-07-15 · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5QLNZUSVN4XXM4FLP2RZN65ODC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:01.271187Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec16dcd2556f2f7670ab7ea396fbae18b3a4e245ece0a027b70b4da55fa53d6b

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.04421 · arxiv_version: 1607.04421v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.04421 · pith_short_12: 5QLNZUSVN4XX · pith_short_16: 5QLNZUSVN4XXM4FL · pith_short_8: 5QLNZUSV

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/5QLNZUSVN4XXM4FLP2RZN65ODC \
  | 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: ec16dcd2556f2f7670ab7ea396fbae18b3a4e245ece0a027b70b4da55fa53d6b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30d993d345d13b5608b58ec564fc3a3714a125be406e34589748b0e330493451",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-15T09:03:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ad166811b5d5e1d26b1d55058e3d8d0fced637bba8223e7594df4d2f5defd5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.04421",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}