Pith Number

pith:J4IBHXJZ

pith:2016:J4IBHXJZZNGRWBHNIHNLV2COCV

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It wasn't me! Plausible Deniability in Web Search

Douglas J. Leith, P\'ol Mac Aonghusa

arxiv:1609.07922 v1 · 2016-09-26 · cs.CR · cs.CY

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J4IBHXJZZNGRWBHNIHNLV2COCV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:54.991288Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f1013dd39cb4d1b04ed41dabae84e155d921dfa0bbd4ded08a598b72a9476d2

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.07922 · arxiv_version: 1609.07922v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.07922 · pith_short_12: J4IBHXJZZNGR · pith_short_16: J4IBHXJZZNGRWBHN · pith_short_8: J4IBHXJZ

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/J4IBHXJZZNGRWBHNIHNLV2COCV \
  | 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: 4f1013dd39cb4d1b04ed41dabae84e155d921dfa0bbd4ded08a598b72a9476d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e91465e8b01c7268799178807ff8ec22d7d1d52918f025c9aa38f95834203e22",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-26T11:01:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d0cb3f86df0632dd9bcac15420b44eaf3ec57bfb2bf16e67247c9cb26715b5fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.07922",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}