Pith Number

pith:HXJYGTYJ

pith:2016:HXJYGTYJFZST34XRBF4OC5AHM6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Safety in Numbers: Anonymization Makes Centralized Systems Trustworthy

Andrew Allison, Derek Abbott, Lachlan J. Gunn

arxiv:1602.03316 v2 · 2016-02-10 · 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{HXJYGTYJFZST34XRBF4OC5AHM6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:58.182121Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3dd3834f092e653df2f10978e1740767816c33ce44c4d2ebea1ff6278876000e

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.03316 · arxiv_version: 1602.03316v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.03316 · pith_short_12: HXJYGTYJFZST · pith_short_16: HXJYGTYJFZST34XR · pith_short_8: HXJYGTYJ

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/HXJYGTYJFZST34XRBF4OC5AHM6 \
  | 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: 3dd3834f092e653df2f10978e1740767816c33ce44c4d2ebea1ff6278876000e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d25a2ff5bd0a2e7d770309d2e60607da358be6e8425a09156ba19c2482960f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-10T10:16:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a8de8a952d512a1800177c8fbc38e4fc7fd8d2d1d22fb5bebc65bc99959d2bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.03316",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}