Pith Number

pith:K3BRHCKP

pith:2017:K3BRHCKPNKD5CJHG6VILXYONZY

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An Information Theoretic Framework for Active De-anonymization in Social Networks Based on Group Memberships

Elza Erkip, Farhad Shirani, Siddharth Garg

arxiv:1710.04163 v1 · 2017-10-11 · cs.IT · cs.CR · cs.SI · math.IT

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\pithnumber{K3BRHCKPNKD5CJHG6VILXYONZY}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:33:04.730285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

56c313894f6a87d124e6f550bbe1cdce1a9ec5740dc08aae37e5941fb941dfe7

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.04163 · arxiv_version: 1710.04163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.04163 · pith_short_12: K3BRHCKPNKD5 · pith_short_16: K3BRHCKPNKD5CJHG · pith_short_8: K3BRHCKP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/K3BRHCKPNKD5CJHG6VILXYONZY \
  | 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: 56c313894f6a87d124e6f550bbe1cdce1a9ec5740dc08aae37e5941fb941dfe7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "573df7a7db482cc8fed82e5ffe1486ec3ab7be3ac89dadc94f8e186bdc6e2733",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.SI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-11T16:39:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c9b7cfb61d4d6b74e6e97b18d0f856723f1d61962dfe753c3af071edb1d5cd0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.04163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}