Pith Number

pith:KFL46LMI

pith:2017:KFL46LMIEM5JXKVPRE7P3LK5ZP

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Breaking the Target: An Analysis of Target Data Breach and Lessons Learned

Andrew Ciambrone, Danfeng Yao, Ke Tian, Xiaokui Shu

arxiv:1701.04940 v1 · 2017-01-18 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KFL46LMIEM5JXKVPRE7P3LK5ZP}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:07:56.388053Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5157cf2d88233a9baaaf893efdad5dcbeeb5a3fe2a71d1e75b07a5216ed9dfa4

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.04940 · arxiv_version: 1701.04940v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.04940 · pith_short_12: KFL46LMIEM5J · pith_short_16: KFL46LMIEM5JXKVP · pith_short_8: KFL46LMI

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/KFL46LMIEM5JXKVPRE7P3LK5ZP \
  | 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: 5157cf2d88233a9baaaf893efdad5dcbeeb5a3fe2a71d1e75b07a5216ed9dfa4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "818508d9de0ef032aa4c45948652cefd3ae4fe89637663482176685a5596a2cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-18T04:31:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72c3ccb71f2b4716a7caf1f1b0508ea7beebef6d407e2484702c8b3f8b25dff6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.04940",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}