Pith Number

pith:6F46FRKC

pith:2010:6F46FRKCJP2DPEIKWMFVAD3MHW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A simple and practical algorithm for differentially private data release

Frank McSherry, Katrina Ligett, Moritz Hardt

arxiv:1012.4763 v2 · 2010-12-21 · cs.DS

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6F46FRKCJP2DPEIKWMFVAD3MHW}

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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	2026-05-18T04:00:02.812209Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f179e2c5424bf437910ab30b500f6c3d9f2e4d02700c7f0131d6989d548a24b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1012.4763 · arxiv_version: 1012.4763v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1012.4763 · pith_short_12: 6F46FRKCJP2D · pith_short_16: 6F46FRKCJP2DPEIK · pith_short_8: 6F46FRKC

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/6F46FRKCJP2DPEIKWMFVAD3MHW \
  | 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: f179e2c5424bf437910ab30b500f6c3d9f2e4d02700c7f0131d6989d548a24b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd7bfc47db9cb13cac5e860c3fbc8f2a4f6fb4ddb8d0d6141524eafad778be7b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-21T18:41:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "833d7d1f5408f7786ec4f4410bd9adb5006a24a4885f39e137f42b5a0c91620a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1012.4763",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}