Pith Number

pith:7MB4TPGL

pith:2018:7MB4TPGLO4K3WENDOUEGN6LLPU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quantifying Users' Beliefs about Software Updates

Arunesh Mathur, Eyal Peer, Marian Harbach, Nathan Malkin, Serge Egelman

arxiv:1805.04594 v1 · 2018-05-11 · cs.CR · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7MB4TPGLO4K3WENDOUEGN6LLPU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:31.534266Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fb03c9bccb7715bb11a3750866f96b7d1c572ee49b47e4e649c94bf030979198

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.04594 · arxiv_version: 1805.04594v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.04594 · pith_short_12: 7MB4TPGLO4K3 · pith_short_16: 7MB4TPGLO4K3WEND · pith_short_8: 7MB4TPGL

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/7MB4TPGLO4K3WENDOUEGN6LLPU \
  | 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: fb03c9bccb7715bb11a3750866f96b7d1c572ee49b47e4e649c94bf030979198

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "faa16164917c0e2c6ec83bbbbb6a620521711668a1864385a022492d80b0e3dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-11T21:20:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "843c5d0a97d2c973b1da68c86d88944709b8b2a9af9a5f4f0c30845aea03e37a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.04594",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}