Pith Number

pith:D4I6ZPSP

pith:2016:D4I6ZPSPFTYE6Q7AN6STEMN5EV

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Privacy, Discovery, and Authentication for the Internet of Things

Ankur Taly, Asim Shankar, Dan Boneh, David J. Wu

arxiv:1604.06959 v3 · 2016-04-23 · 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{D4I6ZPSPFTYE6Q7AN6STEMN5EV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:47.071044Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f11ecbe4f2cf04f43e06fa53231bd2549cef5b9c07cdfd93f7f07ae444e2cef

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.06959 · arxiv_version: 1604.06959v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.06959 · pith_short_12: D4I6ZPSPFTYE · pith_short_16: D4I6ZPSPFTYE6Q7A · pith_short_8: D4I6ZPSP

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/D4I6ZPSPFTYE6Q7AN6STEMN5EV \
  | 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: 1f11ecbe4f2cf04f43e06fa53231bd2549cef5b9c07cdfd93f7f07ae444e2cef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb91400eafe3e6da2d138b94206c063e2712444670915459a5591515b366a636",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-23T21:57:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aea26951c480193c0b438d3b1a215f8243dae6a5aaf832e721a03dd3af501d66"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.06959",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}