Pith Number

pith:ENJ2N7QC

pith:2018:ENJ2N7QCKSAAYU4IJMW3XQZVL6

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What's (Not) Validating Network Paths: A Survey

Avery Laird, Jiaqing Luo, Kai Bu, Kui Ren, Yingjiu Li, Yutian Yang

arxiv:1804.03385 v2 · 2018-04-10 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ENJ2N7QCKSAAYU4IJMW3XQZVL6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:32.669305Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2353a6fe0254800c53884b2dbbc3355f990e13014ebcd63e61d57056241bf03c

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.03385 · arxiv_version: 1804.03385v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.03385 · pith_short_12: ENJ2N7QCKSAA · pith_short_16: ENJ2N7QCKSAAYU4I · pith_short_8: ENJ2N7QC

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/ENJ2N7QCKSAAYU4IJMW3XQZVL6 \
  | 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: 2353a6fe0254800c53884b2dbbc3355f990e13014ebcd63e61d57056241bf03c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "82fff1fdeea3b081574fdeefb2cb401c3b2851a865ae83b792ee5f1454eef5b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-10T08:04:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a202fb273ee36410280b8e90739da98e71e762e8ce3532bbe4380391fa8942d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.03385",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}