Pith Number

pith:K5ZKIXSJ

pith:2017:K5ZKIXSJXI5TIC5JCHSC5OZILA

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ClipAudit: A Simple Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audit

Ronald L. Rivest

arxiv:1701.08312 v1 · 2017-01-28 · cs.CR · stat.AP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K5ZKIXSJXI5TIC5JCHSC5OZILA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:54.561780Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5772a45e49ba3b340ba911e42ebb28583552133e341385bde6d752c9b7d3667c

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.08312 · arxiv_version: 1701.08312v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.08312 · pith_short_12: K5ZKIXSJXI5T · pith_short_16: K5ZKIXSJXI5TIC5J · pith_short_8: K5ZKIXSJ

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/K5ZKIXSJXI5TIC5JCHSC5OZILA \
  | 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: 5772a45e49ba3b340ba911e42ebb28583552133e341385bde6d752c9b7d3667c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b8a796ee692b4668701cb440cd363b301895df0acd51795422f9750e86aa098",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-28T18:51:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "421544e748dc85006a9c9ff2a4d1585b5d8dd4c94ea96842756eaf0cdc0d7017"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.08312",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}