Pith Number

pith:FILDWBVX

pith:2020:FILDWBVXR7QJWADNA2GHMIF3V5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Signature-based Selection of IaaS Cloud Services

Athman Bouguettaya, Sajib Mistry, Sheik Mohammad Mostakim Fattah

arxiv:2004.12378 v2 · 2020-04-26 · cs.DC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FILDWBVXR7QJWADNA2GHMIF3V5}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T01:27:46.135715Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a163b06b78fe09b006d068c7620bbaf5cd12288df997bbbc83a9188984616f7

Aliases

arxiv: 2004.12378 · arxiv_version: 2004.12378v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2004.12378 · pith_short_12: FILDWBVXR7QJ · pith_short_16: FILDWBVXR7QJWADN · pith_short_8: FILDWBVX

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/FILDWBVXR7QJWADNA2GHMIF3V5 \
  | 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: 2a163b06b78fe09b006d068c7620bbaf5cd12288df997bbbc83a9188984616f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "67f24be118db51d1e7f35f05be1e20b1587ec94880414cec1cb9e629d16ae062",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-04-26T13:31:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a7650b82dffacac10e399681df35b5f7b593446c718a71e475d416a766b6a173"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2004.12378",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}