Pith Number

pith:7DGETFWF

pith:2026:7DGETFWFVA6UDJXYINVQRHPHIY

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Canonicalization Failures as a Recurring Vulnerability Class: Representation Divergence in Cryptographic Systems and Its Avoidance

Arslan Br\"omme

arxiv:2608.06508 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7DGETFWFVA6UDJXYINVQRHPHIY}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-08-10T01:10:53.203791Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f8cc4996c5a83d41a6f8436b089de7460514262ff14a721a7b271a13371b668b

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06508 · arxiv_version: 2608.06508v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06508 · pith_short_12: 7DGETFWFVA6U · pith_short_16: 7DGETFWFVA6UDJXY · pith_short_8: 7DGETFWF

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/7DGETFWFVA6UDJXYINVQRHPHIY \
  | 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: f8cc4996c5a83d41a6f8436b089de7460514262ff14a721a7b271a13371b668b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1c03a2eca78255842fa5d8a5bddfed0dbf57e1a6e3c84e581b192624817f9fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T18:47:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7789c0eaa80dfb80b0f1257b8e713facfa97b8fc2f9d65181ff9759a0b43bb70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06508",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}