Pith Number

pith:BHPLY2GQ

pith:2017:BHPLY2GQ54SOHJ2DC6DYLXTTD7

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Technical Report on Deploying a highly secured OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure using BradStack as a Case Study

Al Noaman M.K. Al-Shaidy, Bashir Mohammed, K. M Maiyama, M. A. Kamala, M. Kiran, Sibusiso Moyo, Sulayman Kinteh

arxiv:1712.09152 v1 · 2017-12-26 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BHPLY2GQ54SOHJ2DC6DYLXTTD7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:14.306987Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09debc68d0ef24e3a743178785de731fdbe7c804d0b5baae3cbf8a197d97b9dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09152 · arxiv_version: 1712.09152v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09152 · pith_short_12: BHPLY2GQ54SO · pith_short_16: BHPLY2GQ54SOHJ2D · pith_short_8: BHPLY2GQ

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/BHPLY2GQ54SOHJ2DC6DYLXTTD7 \
  | 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: 09debc68d0ef24e3a743178785de731fdbe7c804d0b5baae3cbf8a197d97b9dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5dfc96dfe3d680788904b3d2c0b40948e49c86240c01ebdd1aa334d023fdbe9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-26T01:03:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cbfe9a09cd5670edf7b3d7d1609431358d473bd471929a004d8a0f6f5c15a37f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}