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pith:B53Y7E3W

pith:2025:B53Y7E3WZES4VORDMNDARVEMW5

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Passive Hack-Back Strategies for Cyber Attribution: Covert Vectors in Denied Environment

Abraham Itzhak Weinberg

arxiv:2508.16637 v1 · 2025-08-17 · cs.CR

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:58:00.532737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f778f9376c925caba23634608d48cb749f5589effe4b46b3e3ee25ee34bc481

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.16637 · arxiv_version: 2508.16637v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.16637 · pith_short_12: B53Y7E3WZES4 · pith_short_16: B53Y7E3WZES4VORD · pith_short_8: B53Y7E3W

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B53Y7E3WZES4VORDMNDARVEMW5 \
  | 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: 0f778f9376c925caba23634608d48cb749f5589effe4b46b3e3ee25ee34bc481

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e3020857287584f8cbe3978f787bc5934333da400374d390dedd73aa6a346d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-17T16:43:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b983b258f51137fd6eeb7edb0de34ada4c42266da3225dc864d42f9d0edaa59c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.16637",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}