Pith Number

pith:CNMRIZ3H

pith:2017:CNMRIZ3HHZV3MAKSA5UYODXOS3

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The Efficient Server Audit Problem, Deduplicated Re-execution, and the Web

Cheng Tan, Joshua B. Leners, Lingfan Yu, Michael Walfish

arxiv:1709.08501 v2 · 2017-09-25 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CNMRIZ3HHZV3MAKSA5UYODXOS3}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:18:04.016682Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

13591467673e6bb601520769870eee96c7a51d5815f5ff7f24ab4e5f1a3a47e1

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08501 · arxiv_version: 1709.08501v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08501 · pith_short_12: CNMRIZ3HHZV3 · pith_short_16: CNMRIZ3HHZV3MAKS · pith_short_8: CNMRIZ3H

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CNMRIZ3HHZV3MAKSA5UYODXOS3 \
  | 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: 13591467673e6bb601520769870eee96c7a51d5815f5ff7f24ab4e5f1a3a47e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bcb46fc6baf7404b96d938d597746c59826f665c9315d5b3023ab980b3b3310a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-25T14:11:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4af573ab4ded89f70df9a51147de9d4be62d06af6228c494e08fdeb17439978e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.08501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}