Pith Number

pith:EW7N753F

pith:2000:EW7N753FYNUJXNYV66YYJEWUDC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Byzantine Agreement with Faulty Majority using Bounded Broadcast

David Metcalf, Jeffrey Considine, Leonid A. Levin

arxiv:cs/0012024 v4 · 2000-12-26 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EW7N753FYNUJXNYV66YYJEWUDC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:28.077380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25bedff765c3689bb715f7b18492d4188d0bb3e4ae7d73325bba158c838cf31b

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0012024 · arxiv_version: cs/0012024v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0012024 · pith_short_12: EW7N753FYNUJ · pith_short_16: EW7N753FYNUJXNYV · pith_short_8: EW7N753F

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/EW7N753FYNUJXNYV66YYJEWUDC \
  | 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: 25bedff765c3689bb715f7b18492d4188d0bb3e4ae7d73325bba158c838cf31b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fb452be3d8f5d65f262aaf694e91da5f7b5dbfbd8762d39aa85d451ee058640",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2000-12-26T23:05:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45054d1285ce219c5060766e9844cfe8a62d347572130d40a822d5a868f563fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0012024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}