Pith Number

pith:HIXONMT4

pith:2012:HIXONMT4ZMZRCF7CNU5XUPSZN6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Proofs of Writing for Efficient and Robust Storage

Dan Dobre, Ghassan Karame, Marko Vukolic, Matthias Majuntke, Neeraj Suri, Wenting Li

arxiv:1212.3555 v2 · 2012-12-14 · cs.DC · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HIXONMT4ZMZRCF7CNU5XUPSZN6}

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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	2026-05-18T03:37:52.177729Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a2ee6b27ccb331117e26d3b7a3e596f88c06d567a7bed51c90932f68f3389c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.3555 · arxiv_version: 1212.3555v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.3555 · pith_short_12: HIXONMT4ZMZR · pith_short_16: HIXONMT4ZMZRCF7C · pith_short_8: HIXONMT4

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/HIXONMT4ZMZRCF7CNU5XUPSZN6 \
  | 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: 3a2ee6b27ccb331117e26d3b7a3e596f88c06d567a7bed51c90932f68f3389c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b35942aebd2700e7fe1def2eab5158a21c9f7567fb94326504d9a27844694e05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-14T18:15:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d98dceddd5c3218aa14a02753aecb5b7a3f676e6615a00415ca85a33cda7bc03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.3555",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}