Pith Number

pith:76KI453E

pith:2018:76KI453EH23R2NH4KVMKX3TPJA

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Oh, What a Fragile Web We Weave: Third-party Service Dependencies In Modern Webservices and Implications

Aqsa Kashaf, Carolina Zarate, Hanrou Wang, Vyas Sekar, Yuvraj Agarwal

arxiv:1806.08420 v1 · 2018-06-21 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{76KI453EH23R2NH4KVMKX3TPJA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:37.418299Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff948e77643eb71d34fc5558abee6f480bc636f6f71c01a49ff9e56477f0487e

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.08420 · arxiv_version: 1806.08420v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.08420 · pith_short_12: 76KI453EH23R · pith_short_16: 76KI453EH23R2NH4 · pith_short_8: 76KI453E

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/76KI453EH23R2NH4KVMKX3TPJA \
  | 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: ff948e77643eb71d34fc5558abee6f480bc636f6f71c01a49ff9e56477f0487e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "76be708492cf7f016a9bb739a4074de47c2edaed08851f6fac444869fa612ed4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-21T20:27:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee4620bdd221cc13f01c5e33d94906c4c9bd8d71699e741b5cd7ddfffe5a9959"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.08420",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}