Pith Number

pith:7PWMUPL5

pith:2026:7PWMUPL5U6MPZBXDE2OLITMJ27

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Symmetry Defeats Auditing

Nick Merrill, Zeke Medley

arxiv:2605.27836 v1 · 2026-05-27 · cs.CR · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7PWMUPL5U6MPZBXDE2OLITMJ27}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-28T01:04:49.983588Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fbecca3d7da798fc86e3269cb44d89d7f91c856ead812a23bfcb6ede8156e47d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.27836 · arxiv_version: 2605.27836v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.27836 · pith_short_12: 7PWMUPL5U6MP · pith_short_16: 7PWMUPL5U6MPZBXD · pith_short_8: 7PWMUPL5

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/7PWMUPL5U6MPZBXDE2OLITMJ27 \
  | 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: fbecca3d7da798fc86e3269cb44d89d7f91c856ead812a23bfcb6ede8156e47d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84ef8161f12e61a4f53b4551b25961843e1a9d09d5291b3621b0b0652a2f7200",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-27T01:47:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5d93cdea4a50e877f4d5e1e3fea96b44ec99fadefdf9c1908e5591b38192d8e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.27836",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}