Pith Number

pith:HXIG5PXX

pith:2008:HXIG5PXXQ3WQAF55CZ3S2HIIHC

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Service Cloaking and Authentication at Data Link Layer

Arun Kumar S P

arxiv:0804.3796 v1 · 2008-04-23 · cs.NI · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HXIG5PXXQ3WQAF55CZ3S2HIIHC}

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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	2026-07-04T15:34:43.077757Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3dd06ebef786ed0017bd16772d1d0838b19d8db2786c062f747357084dd32648

Aliases

arxiv: 0804.3796 · arxiv_version: 0804.3796v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0804.3796 · pith_short_12: HXIG5PXXQ3WQ · pith_short_16: HXIG5PXXQ3WQAF55 · pith_short_8: HXIG5PXX

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/HXIG5PXXQ3WQAF55CZ3S2HIIHC \
  | 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: 3dd06ebef786ed0017bd16772d1d0838b19d8db2786c062f747357084dd32648

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "047bf3e818af0e1637b6c6fd8112271918c15bd71d455f455a44a889a4cd93b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2008-04-23T20:01:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a94cf3ffe4400007760b2756b47e1d01e0d3f0fcfc6da5a5168caa31c2e4d023"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0804.3796",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}