Pith Number

pith:JRXUFCMV

pith:2018:JRXUFCMVCKVW67LYQMU3EG42VJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decentralised Random Number Generation

Peter Robinson

arxiv:1807.09225 v1 · 2018-07-06 · 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{JRXUFCMVCKVW67LYQMU3EG42VJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:56.373641Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4c6f42899512ab6f7d788329b21b9aaa7464d0394c40d6c200559e657c4e2e25

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.09225 · arxiv_version: 1807.09225v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.09225 · pith_short_12: JRXUFCMVCKVW · pith_short_16: JRXUFCMVCKVW67LY · pith_short_8: JRXUFCMV

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/JRXUFCMVCKVW67LYQMU3EG42VJ \
  | 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: 4c6f42899512ab6f7d788329b21b9aaa7464d0394c40d6c200559e657c4e2e25

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af8ee135dcd14b20a05d76501266c3f6a2a7c045ad0d4f8311514ff7abbf2963",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-06T05:57:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8959fcf08b8c2f0ee0a63ecb3d4fe846efeb9e5ed97cbb6bb7aa9c07545d28e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.09225",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}