Pith Number

pith:HNM6KD2X

pith:2015:HNM6KD2XIMBFQVCVYEDDCZFFEE

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Hardware Random number Generator for cryptography

Ashok Vudayagiri, Madhuri K., Ram Soorat

arxiv:1510.01234 v1 · 2015-10-05 · physics.comp-ph · cs.CR · physics.ins-det

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HNM6KD2XIMBFQVCVYEDDCZFFEE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:31:04.495841Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b59e50f574302585455c1063164a5212ff10e6f55955581dce6b44e29b82e00

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.01234 · arxiv_version: 1510.01234v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.01234 · pith_short_12: HNM6KD2XIMBF · pith_short_16: HNM6KD2XIMBFQVCV · pith_short_8: HNM6KD2X

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/HNM6KD2XIMBFQVCVYEDDCZFFEE \
  | 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: 3b59e50f574302585455c1063164a5212ff10e6f55955581dce6b44e29b82e00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d55593132626bc544d8d1e624616adddc1b12a6b6279519c174ca0e3529748a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "physics.ins-det"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.comp-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-05T17:04:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90da3916bff83e94d66a79b370c739987f02ca41a317d9fbfe5f260cd2088a9e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.01234",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}