Pith Number

pith:5YDVUSDM

pith:2026:5YDVUSDM3BU6LRJPOM6D4QPDJO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

One (Thread) Can Keep a (PRNG) Secret, but not Two

Amit Klein, Benny Pinkas, Ehood Porat

arxiv:2606.00918 v1 · 2026-05-30 · 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{5YDVUSDM3BU6LRJPOM6D4QPDJO}

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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	2026-06-02T01:04:09.448831Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee075a486cd869e5c52f733c3e41e34ba9ae91adec8dc715f7195860d39d2600

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.00918 · arxiv_version: 2606.00918v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.00918 · pith_short_12: 5YDVUSDM3BU6 · pith_short_16: 5YDVUSDM3BU6LRJP · pith_short_8: 5YDVUSDM

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/5YDVUSDM3BU6LRJPOM6D4QPDJO \
  | 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: ee075a486cd869e5c52f733c3e41e34ba9ae91adec8dc715f7195860d39d2600

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "886d4afc066cc3f6f5d67f9c53dae18df8ff954f2a16e2c4f38b8ec943ab37aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-30T23:00:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c9048ae12a09870a4da1ec433228b79bb5fd709c929fa2ec92f4b59028e9a1b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.00918",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}