Pith Number

pith:5VITZGIC

pith:2017:5VITZGIC5H2YOE5WJCM4V57NU6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Assessing Code Authorship: The Case of the Linux Kernel

Andre Hora, Guilherme Avelino, Leonardo Passos, Marco Tulio Valente

arxiv:1703.02925 v1 · 2017-03-08 · cs.SE · cs.OS · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VITZGIC5H2YOE5WJCM4V57NU6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:55.464112Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed513c9902e9f58713b64899caf7eda78f1c00e66b9a88ae508fdc3aeaf43cd2

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.02925 · arxiv_version: 1703.02925v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.02925 · pith_short_12: 5VITZGIC5H2Y · pith_short_16: 5VITZGIC5H2YOE5W · pith_short_8: 5VITZGIC

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/5VITZGIC5H2YOE5WJCM4V57NU6 \
  | 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: ed513c9902e9f58713b64899caf7eda78f1c00e66b9a88ae508fdc3aeaf43cd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e6805d73da65bbee63e0b90cc845ac107b3092e4331ad575367acb337c32fbc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.OS",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-08T17:26:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "316d1bd2aa4894ffbfdc682404aa030fc2cb551b7c03cf73549e41bb94f0cfe6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.02925",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}