Pith Number

pith:AEWPZZKR

pith:2017:AEWPZZKR35LM6DXLBJHFEMZRMU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fake it till you make it: Fishing for Catfishes

Gareth Tyson, Nishanth Sastry, Sagar Joglekar, Walid Magdy, Yehia Elkhatib

arxiv:1705.06530 v2 · 2017-05-18 · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AEWPZZKR35LM6DXLBJHFEMZRMU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:17.647650Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

012cfce551df56cf0eeb0a4e523331650eda9e3b25a1d8392abcb9493b1686ae

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.06530 · arxiv_version: 1705.06530v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.06530 · pith_short_12: AEWPZZKR35LM · pith_short_16: AEWPZZKR35LM6DXL · pith_short_8: AEWPZZKR

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/AEWPZZKR35LM6DXLBJHFEMZRMU \
  | 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: 012cfce551df56cf0eeb0a4e523331650eda9e3b25a1d8392abcb9493b1686ae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25135f4d817bc0095f2fb1e75b1c86622707f4e0fccf27e018e7636d954a9bad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-18T11:23:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6254d35d3c7c27da8bedb02443cb072ac3f8f25105ad5e8360ee2034daff9f51"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.06530",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}