Pith Number

pith:7L4O4ZYY

pith:2011:7L4O4ZYYN6OAJM4S6HYNUQQQGT

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DistHash: A robust P2P DHT-based system for replicated objects

Ciprian Dobre, Florin Pop, Valentin Cristea

arxiv:1106.5299 v1 · 2011-06-27 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7L4O4ZYYN6OAJM4S6HYNUQQQGT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T04:19:13.878912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

faf8ee67186f9c04b392f1f0da421034daf013bec8eb275de0ec21536d63bc00

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.5299 · arxiv_version: 1106.5299v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.5299 · pith_short_12: 7L4O4ZYYN6OA · pith_short_16: 7L4O4ZYYN6OAJM4S · pith_short_8: 7L4O4ZYY

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/7L4O4ZYYN6OAJM4S6HYNUQQQGT \
  | 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: faf8ee67186f9c04b392f1f0da421034daf013bec8eb275de0ec21536d63bc00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f0256b4f4fc1597a568ef39abf8d91f3df0a96cc89f254fd9f3969feabb15ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-27T05:49:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b8ca1582e28262f7060e3d7d26a9edba6f0c3aa5ea765d592127cba11601050"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.5299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}