Pith Number

pith:I2V6MG2X

pith:2025:I2V6MG2X52447VLH4FKIP3SUAP

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The Pitfalls of "Security by Obscurity" And What They Mean for Transparent AI

Olivia Mundahl, Peter Hall, Sunoo Park

arxiv:2501.18669 v1 · 2025-01-30 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I2V6MG2X52447VLH4FKIP3SUAP}

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4 Citations open

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:07:49.934028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46abe61b57eeb9cfd567e15487ee5403f491ad32dbbf90ac4279b62b3193e54a

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.18669 · arxiv_version: 2501.18669v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.18669 · pith_short_12: I2V6MG2X5244 · pith_short_16: I2V6MG2X52447VLH · pith_short_8: I2V6MG2X

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I2V6MG2X52447VLH4FKIP3SUAP \
  | 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: 46abe61b57eeb9cfd567e15487ee5403f491ad32dbbf90ac4279b62b3193e54a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2cdf504b0aaea68989833e26e9d8b5611ed783ead72271c580ee8269e4cd936d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-30T17:04:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "562c737e56c6d6ad75661c6cb97adde3664796925e72ed28efe973a865dd3936"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.18669",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}