Pith Number

pith:7J6TKPOB

pith:2023:7J6TKPOBGXZ25ZOB2MIPUWQWDQ

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Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Cl\'eo Lemoisson, Damien Desfontaines, Daniel Simmons-Marengo, David Pujol, Gabriele Modena, Hal Triedman, Isaac Johnson, Michael Hay, Skye Berghel, Temilola Adeleye, Tom Magerlein

arxiv:2308.16298 v3 · 2023-08-30 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7J6TKPOBGXZ25ZOB2MIPUWQWDQ}

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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	2026-07-05T11:43:53.197616Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa7d353dc135f3aee5c1d310fa5a161c1748826fd9bea776a204a76875465646

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.16298 · arxiv_version: 2308.16298v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.16298 · pith_short_12: 7J6TKPOBGXZ2 · pith_short_16: 7J6TKPOBGXZ25ZOB · pith_short_8: 7J6TKPOB

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/7J6TKPOBGXZ25ZOB2MIPUWQWDQ \
  | 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: fa7d353dc135f3aee5c1d310fa5a161c1748826fd9bea776a204a76875465646

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e5ebd307ae45dee8cc035fcb3607888f952e45d1dc3f648d3e4a67e1661995f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-30T19:58:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57853459d4335e83cbdbb09c7f620707c3b2eb3ddbc7416a67765e2eed8c3638"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.16298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}