Pith Number

pith:EP6S6HZD

pith:2025:EP6S6HZD7QA4EOZL73MK233LCU

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Assessing the Aftermath: the Effects of a Global Takedown against DDoS-for-hire Services

Alice Hutchings, Anh V. Vu, Ben Collier, Daniel R. Thomas, John Kristoff, Richard Clayton

arxiv:2502.04753 v1 · 2025-02-07 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EP6S6HZD7QA4EOZL73MK233LCU}

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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	2026-07-05T10:12:04.122928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23fd2f1f23fc01c23b2bfed8ad6f6b153033635b4c950fcde631d3d3768bc75b

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.04753 · arxiv_version: 2502.04753v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.04753 · pith_short_12: EP6S6HZD7QA4 · pith_short_16: EP6S6HZD7QA4EOZL · pith_short_8: EP6S6HZD

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/EP6S6HZD7QA4EOZL73MK233LCU \
  | 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: 23fd2f1f23fc01c23b2bfed8ad6f6b153033635b4c950fcde631d3d3768bc75b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c83b6de0f41bcbe35272dc29bf9c01073054ee80a7c29055717a2f7142ed35d1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-07T08:39:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aafcf0e39fa7a77ac472d07abf9b8e419d1c8ea42cc067279eedd31f6d093c3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.04753",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}