Pith Number

pith:FBRZKNZB

pith:2014:FBRZKNZBGHA3YNOJOCHB32WTLE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Secure Erasure Codes With Partial Decodability

Chau Yuen, Son Hoang Dau, Wentu Song

arxiv:1410.3214 v1 · 2014-10-13 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FBRZKNZBGHA3YNOJOCHB32WTLE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:40:11.828172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

286395372131c1bc35c9708e1dead35925436f37cc89b16b878019a8710c5656

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.3214 · arxiv_version: 1410.3214v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.3214 · pith_short_12: FBRZKNZBGHA3 · pith_short_16: FBRZKNZBGHA3YNOJ · pith_short_8: FBRZKNZB

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/FBRZKNZBGHA3YNOJOCHB32WTLE \
  | 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: 286395372131c1bc35c9708e1dead35925436f37cc89b16b878019a8710c5656

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c672bbe9a7247c87c532e834da1042bc85839aa72e149613933f5bca90fe4fa0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-13T08:16:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e716e36b898e2d60c5c1323d5fcc51d9b5393c348975eeda49b0e5860a35801"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.3214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}