Pith Number

pith:HOK4GLDK

pith:2018:HOK4GLDKPQFWKOFHRZFRX7BZ2L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

vChain: Enabling Verifiable Boolean Range Queries over Blockchain Databases

Ce Zhang, Cheng Xu, Jianliang Xu

arxiv:1812.02386 v1 · 2018-12-06 · cs.DB · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HOK4GLDKPQFWKOFHRZFRX7BZ2L}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:47.035264Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b95c32c6a7c0b6538a78e4b1bfc39d2e026b3a528369598cc8868cd4a6c5f67

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.02386 · arxiv_version: 1812.02386v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.02386 · pith_short_12: HOK4GLDKPQFW · pith_short_16: HOK4GLDKPQFWKOFH · pith_short_8: HOK4GLDK

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/HOK4GLDKPQFWKOFHRZFRX7BZ2L \
  | 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: 3b95c32c6a7c0b6538a78e4b1bfc39d2e026b3a528369598cc8868cd4a6c5f67

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a607901eb963536aa5d54464d85cb46da1d962ed1dfb832d3250ccaf09ca641d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-06T07:33:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "92a3d71d089083fe706d04b4f2fe64661329982ffd686889f9911fb74a1c238b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.02386",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}