Pith Number

pith:BCDEOM5Y

pith:2015:BCDEOM5YLHVAD6ESS35S4GUIYW

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Programs as Actual Causes: A Building Block for Accountability

Anupam Datta, Arunesh Sinha, Deepak Garg, Dilsun Kaynar, Divya Sharma

arxiv:1501.00747 v2 · 2015-01-05 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BCDEOM5YLHVAD6ESS35S4GUIYW}

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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	2026-05-18T02:16:50.925965Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08864733b859ea01f89296fb2e1a88c5a6c9f2137324ea44cb80d1622114e918

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.00747 · arxiv_version: 1501.00747v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.00747 · pith_short_12: BCDEOM5YLHVA · pith_short_16: BCDEOM5YLHVAD6ES · pith_short_8: BCDEOM5Y

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/BCDEOM5YLHVAD6ESS35S4GUIYW \
  | 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: 08864733b859ea01f89296fb2e1a88c5a6c9f2137324ea44cb80d1622114e918

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c767d519b3c30ae061e6c5d7496d9bcb54debdfa0660a440a593d8b4b92819c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-05T02:11:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "573fe0ef9bd89cc2559212367937f6cfcf10a483be99d076f0cb84595f0f67b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.00747",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}