Pith Number

pith:G2WXB54R

pith:2016:G2WXB54RWC5AECU6CDUFCOIAUI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rangzen: Anonymously Getting the Word Out in a Blackout

Adam Lerner, Barath Raghavan, Giulia Fanti, Jesus Garcia, Paul Schmitt, Yahel Ben-David

arxiv:1612.03371 v1 · 2016-12-11 · cs.NI · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G2WXB54RWC5AECU6CDUFCOIAUI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:19.419099Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

36ad70f791b0ba020a9e10e8513900a2107c37c690f69ef5024fb1bea6c3fc27

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.03371 · arxiv_version: 1612.03371v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03371 · pith_short_12: G2WXB54RWC5A · pith_short_16: G2WXB54RWC5AECU6 · pith_short_8: G2WXB54R

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/G2WXB54RWC5AECU6CDUFCOIAUI \
  | 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: 36ad70f791b0ba020a9e10e8513900a2107c37c690f69ef5024fb1bea6c3fc27

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5e215dee0d23783a6d3286bf6121e5ac92101026fc41587af09568cbccd8784",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-11T04:49:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51903359c3630b2c6df0979e57abccc909bb041d0b7a5f65801ed65c2d66e15d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.03371",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}