Pith Number

pith:CW5FNI2P

pith:2023:CW5FNI2PL4LJNXMBSGVTGISSJ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VFCFinder: Seamlessly Pairing Security Advisories and Patches

Bradley Reaves, Elizabeth Lin, Trevor Dunlap, William Enck

arxiv:2311.01532 v1 · 2023-11-02 · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CW5FNI2PL4LJNXMBSGVTGISSJ4}

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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	2026-07-05T07:08:30.803934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

15ba56a34f5f1696dd8191ab3322524f124a3c187880d8cd7ec46d09f785f26a

Aliases

arxiv: 2311.01532 · arxiv_version: 2311.01532v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.01532 · pith_short_12: CW5FNI2PL4LJ · pith_short_16: CW5FNI2PL4LJNXMB · pith_short_8: CW5FNI2P

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/CW5FNI2PL4LJNXMBSGVTGISSJ4 \
  | 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: 15ba56a34f5f1696dd8191ab3322524f124a3c187880d8cd7ec46d09f785f26a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45ed77ac7fca0354b491933b77aec9387b07f1f641e02facd39a018e9f5a454e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2023-11-02T18:30:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb97922be8e4e4c1712b2e182f69be95a50a6f3cba802a050c744cbdb00c3742"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2311.01532",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}