Pith Number

pith:EOV6X353

pith:2018:EOV6X353B42EBZABJQSQF3KRKN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A privacy-preserving system for data ownership using blockchain and distributed databases

Co-Pierre Georg, Sabine Bertram

arxiv:1810.11655 v1 · 2018-10-27 · cs.CR · cs.DC · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EOV6X353B42EBZABJQSQF3KRKN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:07.861346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23abebefbb0f3440e4014c2502ed515375b1131a5d63e322cea57244d4892e7e

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.11655 · arxiv_version: 1810.11655v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.11655 · pith_short_12: EOV6X353B42E · pith_short_16: EOV6X353B42EBZAB · pith_short_8: EOV6X353

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/EOV6X353B42EBZABJQSQF3KRKN \
  | 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: 23abebefbb0f3440e4014c2502ed515375b1131a5d63e322cea57244d4892e7e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d187942da6d08654ac99c3543b95d802ab0b309bec9b16b0f939586df639eaec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.DS"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-27T14:44:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fdcf42224cacd2df44d70a85ac04c8474ec060ba09caf856f62e61226e6d722b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.11655",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}