Pith Number

pith:BD77NJYR

pith:2018:BD77NJYRGMLV7EMMBROVJTXSVP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Aleph: A Leaderless, Asynchronous, Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus Protocol

Adam G\k{a}gol, Micha{\l} \'Swi\k{e}tek

arxiv:1810.05256 v2 · 2018-10-11 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BD77NJYRGMLV7EMMBROVJTXSVP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T00:00:23.504105Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08fff6a71133175f918c0c5d54cef2abcfe50686aa4732eba936c84e120c432a

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.05256 · arxiv_version: 1810.05256v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.05256 · pith_short_12: BD77NJYRGMLV · pith_short_16: BD77NJYRGMLV7EMM · pith_short_8: BD77NJYR

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/BD77NJYRGMLV7EMMBROVJTXSVP \
  | 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: 08fff6a71133175f918c0c5d54cef2abcfe50686aa4732eba936c84e120c432a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b55822c58e372b6ad70fe7d87514b59c5c5c9ee66f63051f52b03eff9fce34d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-11T21:27:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c0a71afd4c09a824ee257a890b339192d32d61c4d96936497d9a21461484127"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.05256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}