Pith Number

pith:5W2STCD7

pith:2018:5W2STCD7KCFCDNSA7Y2B5C4MJ7

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The Rise of Certificate Transparency and Its Implications on the Internet Ecosystem

Georg Carle, Johanna Amann, Lexi Brent, Matthias W\"ahlisch, Oliver Gasser, Quirin Scheitle, Ralph Holz, Theodor Nolte, Thomas C. Schmidt

arxiv:1809.08325 v1 · 2018-09-21 · cs.NI · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5W2STCD7KCFCDNSA7Y2B5C4MJ7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:14.612608Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edb529887f508a21b640fe341e8b8c4fd7e4e0cb6c26828e23b4dc0f3213b5b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.08325 · arxiv_version: 1809.08325v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.08325 · pith_short_12: 5W2STCD7KCFC · pith_short_16: 5W2STCD7KCFCDNSA · pith_short_8: 5W2STCD7

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/5W2STCD7KCFCDNSA7Y2B5C4MJ7 \
  | 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: edb529887f508a21b640fe341e8b8c4fd7e4e0cb6c26828e23b4dc0f3213b5b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "363ccde2977e10be346d9614f09d75f567dd74650fa5bd839109585d8ec8fa43",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-21T21:50:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28e0d22a4a9575d4006c25aefecbf431a037ac0d6c22ac6efd61c87f49c64601"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.08325",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}