Pith Number

pith:KF4Y4NVU

pith:2026:KF4Y4NVUV5QFCVS2SU4RWUB2VP

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Hardware-rooted attestation for AI-agent evidence: composing IETF RATS with action evidence packages

Anton Sokolov

arxiv:2608.00801 v1 · 2026-08-01 · 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{KF4Y4NVUV5QFCVS2SU4RWUB2VP}

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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	2026-08-04T01:55:10.484519Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51798e36b4af6051565a95391b503aabf479b7d22e6cf68c6d3ee3b7cc537164

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00801 · arxiv_version: 2608.00801v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00801 · pith_short_12: KF4Y4NVUV5QF · pith_short_16: KF4Y4NVUV5QFCVS2 · pith_short_8: KF4Y4NVU

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/KF4Y4NVUV5QFCVS2SU4RWUB2VP \
  | 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: 51798e36b4af6051565a95391b503aabf479b7d22e6cf68c6d3ee3b7cc537164

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f0406419073235f2a3c25120e4b0d602da33aea000ac203d486d7221c8a77cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-01T18:01:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d299d72f6d97911a29b43eda14cf5dd39c2532fa6e1c8df41f9f0a2b6f39fc83"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00801",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}