Pith Number

pith:HCJCX2J3

pith:2016:HCJCX2J3YZ6LOH45Z7OAFKVY55

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Current Challenges and Future Research Areas for Digital Forensic Investigation

Brett Becker, David Lillis, Mark Scanlon, Tadhg O'Sullivan

arxiv:1604.03850 v1 · 2016-04-13 · cs.CR · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HCJCX2J3YZ6LOH45Z7OAFKVY55}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:10.874867Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

38922be93bc67cb71f9dcfdc02aab8ef687f8dc34d97c0c917b8cbb59bdb7d93

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.03850 · arxiv_version: 1604.03850v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.03850 · pith_short_12: HCJCX2J3YZ6L · pith_short_16: HCJCX2J3YZ6LOH45 · pith_short_8: HCJCX2J3

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/HCJCX2J3YZ6LOH45Z7OAFKVY55 \
  | 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: 38922be93bc67cb71f9dcfdc02aab8ef687f8dc34d97c0c917b8cbb59bdb7d93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1ae2c9146a4d5a0b6a134f1365433a00db0f3d06410e9d2332249a3f2f7c796",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-13T16:06:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7beb180d615700f8925762ce8bad21e0c9fd5256b4dd62c708b5674189028b92"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.03850",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}