Pith Number

pith:CE3Q3D7V

pith:2026:CE3Q3D7V4TM5A4PZEU7XXAYSIA

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Poking Around in the Dark: Why a Shared Understanding of Components Matters

Alena Naiakshina, Felix Reichmann, Martin Johns, Simon Koch, Wolfgang Krane

arxiv:2606.02442 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.SE · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CE3Q3D7V4TM5A4PZEU7XXAYSIA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-02T03:05:06.330129Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

11370d8ff5e4d9d071f9253f7b83124032de99667de88d7c4c1c082970b5f3b9

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.02442 · arxiv_version: 2606.02442v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.02442 · pith_short_12: CE3Q3D7V4TM5 · pith_short_16: CE3Q3D7V4TM5A4PZ · pith_short_8: CE3Q3D7V

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/CE3Q3D7V4TM5A4PZEU7XXAYSIA \
  | 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: 11370d8ff5e4d9d071f9253f7b83124032de99667de88d7c4c1c082970b5f3b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "655d8f155bfcd73fd33fca10570b28b806cff8331eb1ee9edce8aac3da81529f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T16:12:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cba15ef9bb4706746d88b70584d1bbafc2b1771cf1a2944f7fc416f55485953"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.02442",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}