Pith Number

pith:6SB4ACLB

pith:2013:6SB4ACLB2MBEPOCKBOI5VWQELQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Quartic Public Key Transformation

Gunjan Talati, Subhash Kak

arxiv:1304.4273 v1 · 2013-04-15 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6SB4ACLB2MBEPOCKBOI5VWQELQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:27:53.579613Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f483c00961d30247b84a0b91dada045c024cef5f21b915c8eddb131a855287ad

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.4273 · arxiv_version: 1304.4273v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.4273 · pith_short_12: 6SB4ACLB2MBE · pith_short_16: 6SB4ACLB2MBEPOCK · pith_short_8: 6SB4ACLB

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/6SB4ACLB2MBEPOCKBOI5VWQELQ \
  | 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: f483c00961d30247b84a0b91dada045c024cef5f21b915c8eddb131a855287ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54ca42dd7e913603178080e010cee869249b6984b21b7f1a482f082cdaf969ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-15T21:33:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1db20830cfd22779756f01a3ecc0973c6fc6f5d304fb0a2321a732f551144f0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.4273",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}