Pith Number

pith:6HKCTQAN

pith:2013:6HKCTQANS4SYM244ZRPFZK24CO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Value of User-Visible Internet Cryptography

Phillip J. Brooke, Richard F. Paige

arxiv:1303.1948 v1 · 2013-03-08 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6HKCTQANS4SYM244ZRPFZK24CO}

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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	2026-05-18T03:31:31.885907Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1d429c00d9725866b9ccc5e5cab5c13806f023206b0d80569936903dd048daa

Aliases

arxiv: 1303.1948 · arxiv_version: 1303.1948v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1303.1948 · pith_short_12: 6HKCTQANS4SY · pith_short_16: 6HKCTQANS4SYM244 · pith_short_8: 6HKCTQAN

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/6HKCTQANS4SYM244ZRPFZK24CO \
  | 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: f1d429c00d9725866b9ccc5e5cab5c13806f023206b0d80569936903dd048daa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fdf179c9b5430fbf34d88a4315b8537804b7a4457a7768a15bd1a17895d494cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-08T10:58:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ee728e4d52da4d8f0a7571c83f2fe2670c54fae33a8bab6991e3cd1d049aeaa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1303.1948",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}