Pith Number

pith:6N3VKX2N

pith:2023:6N3VKX2ND4ZYNECMSPQJHIOX5E

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Improving the Security of United States Elections with Robust Optimization

Braden L. Crimmins, Bradley Sturt, J. Alex Halderman

arxiv:2308.02306 v2 · 2023-08-04 · cs.CR · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6N3VKX2ND4ZYNECMSPQJHIOX5E}

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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	2026-07-05T09:12:55.667908Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f377555f4d1f3386904c93e093a1d7e921fb1d1cc3e515d21357a795bf15f880

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.02306 · arxiv_version: 2308.02306v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.02306 · pith_short_12: 6N3VKX2ND4ZY · pith_short_16: 6N3VKX2ND4ZYNECM · pith_short_8: 6N3VKX2N

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/6N3VKX2ND4ZYNECMSPQJHIOX5E \
  | 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: f377555f4d1f3386904c93e093a1d7e921fb1d1cc3e515d21357a795bf15f880

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d204836f4e9a1d3bee6244eb594b4d9c44c9dae18023d0b8a49bfe0eede24f65",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-04T13:17:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15538756c32116ecb45f68e067dd1d1021fe34635431ba468592e53c65c94fd7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.02306",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}