Pith Number

pith:ITTVDNLQ

pith:2015:ITTVDNLQRGBV7CJWHJF27ZP7IE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Class of Random Sequences for Key Generation

Krishnamurthy Kirthi, Subhash Kak

arxiv:1503.03821 v1 · 2015-03-12 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ITTVDNLQRGBV7CJWHJF27ZP7IE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:24:27.181515Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44e751b57089835f89363a4bafe5ff412159c16a34eaae08f16efa5dbd50b292

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.03821 · arxiv_version: 1503.03821v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.03821 · pith_short_12: ITTVDNLQRGBV · pith_short_16: ITTVDNLQRGBV7CJW · pith_short_8: ITTVDNLQ

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/ITTVDNLQRGBV7CJWHJF27ZP7IE \
  | 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: 44e751b57089835f89363a4bafe5ff412159c16a34eaae08f16efa5dbd50b292

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "665e48cdc0320a5444c497268784a16c6b0702c6ff9eb927e4db529059fc83e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-12T17:21:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14ff118e64419ac7b666bb8f9405733b11ba496da1ad2e9ecfa25e2d8e14b7e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.03821",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}