Pith Number

pith:BKCMPIKZ

pith:2018:BKCMPIKZTM5WBEAW6M4ALA2QUL

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Real-Time Index Authentication for Event-Oriented Surveillance Video Query using Blockchain

Alexander Aved, Deeraj Nagothu, Erik Blasch, Ronghua Xu, Seyed Yahya Nikouei, Yu Chen

arxiv:1807.06179 v1 · 2018-07-17 · cs.DC · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BKCMPIKZTM5WBEAW6M4ALA2QUL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:33.762014Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a84c7a1599b3b609016f338058350a2f7d4f1dca169f877ec7d7393e72b78c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06179 · arxiv_version: 1807.06179v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06179 · pith_short_12: BKCMPIKZTM5W · pith_short_16: BKCMPIKZTM5WBEAW · pith_short_8: BKCMPIKZ

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/BKCMPIKZTM5WBEAW6M4ALA2QUL \
  | 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: 0a84c7a1599b3b609016f338058350a2f7d4f1dca169f877ec7d7393e72b78c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd3e4b3cddf737bb7639bb50cfdda566d9ed65451319e37b1326cd4d11608754",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-17T02:02:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6b1a5ef5302a3720e97583546d257c802a09792a8242e14f1a029e4967cd143"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}