Pith Number

pith:J52A6ZBK

pith:2025:J52A6ZBKZADV4SMWYLNBMB2SWH

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Data Encryption Battlefield: A Deep Dive into the Dynamic Confrontations in Ransomware Attacks

Arash Mahboubi, Bazara Barry, Hamed Aboutorab, Hang Thanh Bui, Keyvan Ansari, Khanh Luong, Seyit Camtepe, Shenlu Wang

arxiv:2504.20681 v1 · 2025-04-29 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J52A6ZBKZADV4SMWYLNBMB2SWH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T10:55:47.051795Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f740f642ac8075e4996c2da160752b1f49aee8546bdfd3a2c87602abeacb61f

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.20681 · arxiv_version: 2504.20681v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.20681 · pith_short_12: J52A6ZBKZADV · pith_short_16: J52A6ZBKZADV4SMW · pith_short_8: J52A6ZBK

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/J52A6ZBKZADV4SMWYLNBMB2SWH \
  | 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: 4f740f642ac8075e4996c2da160752b1f49aee8546bdfd3a2c87602abeacb61f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe32729255fb8cae28f63ce27072627bed79304489d07572b9754ee3bd618ba5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-29T12:01:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e296ca12065492e863dc7d4fd339cf091cde77de6661c6425360847a7f61c31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.20681",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}