Pith Number

pith:6W4ATEUE

pith:2025:6W4ATEUELFE3MJU5RFQQWTMFA3

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So, I climbed to the top of the pyramid of pain -- now what?

Ala Yankouskaya, Emily Rosenorn-Lanng, Jane Henriksen-Bulmer, Vasilis Katos

arxiv:2505.24685 v1 · 2025-05-30 · cs.CR · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6W4ATEUELFE3MJU5RFQQWTMFA3}

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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	2026-07-05T11:12:54.679019Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f5b80992845949b6269d89610b4d8506f8d80b7e2e7a33874b971321f96822f8

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.24685 · arxiv_version: 2505.24685v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.24685 · pith_short_12: 6W4ATEUELFE3 · pith_short_16: 6W4ATEUELFE3MJU5 · pith_short_8: 6W4ATEUE

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/6W4ATEUELFE3MJU5RFQQWTMFA3 \
  | 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: f5b80992845949b6269d89610b4d8506f8d80b7e2e7a33874b971321f96822f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f533325f57ac080f0e9c54ab3f146dc2d739d1570b6590e222387fa0c5aa9c6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-30T15:09:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b1508c86877a6105196a1a2b7e70f4924d9c97b82426cf0e229d3b11469be29"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.24685",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}