Pith Number

pith:BU4KUWY6

pith:2015:BU4KUWY6VKMH3KRLKTSMSUBWLA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

N-Version Obfuscation: Impeding Software Tampering Replication with Program Diversity

Hui Xu, Michael R. Lyu, Yangfan Zhou

arxiv:1506.03032 v1 · 2015-06-08 · cs.CR · cs.PL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BU4KUWY6VKMH3KRLKTSMSUBWLA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:55:40.172888Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d38aa5b1eaa987daa2b54e4c95036582852ef242dac11086c52cbbac29b3bad

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.03032 · arxiv_version: 1506.03032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.03032 · pith_short_12: BU4KUWY6VKMH · pith_short_16: BU4KUWY6VKMH3KRL · pith_short_8: BU4KUWY6

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/BU4KUWY6VKMH3KRLKTSMSUBWLA \
  | 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: 0d38aa5b1eaa987daa2b54e4c95036582852ef242dac11086c52cbbac29b3bad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92fb24417fd2a25f93cb0b1b904a947b8c0d99f41d9e546975563e9a2c27ee9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-08T10:10:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca3bbfd88b5d0b226508d2544639365ffbb95eb5715e6426f43dd651d4511a71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.03032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}