Pith Number

pith:KHSERILW

pith:2017:KHSERILWEBJCDHEHANEZWBN54G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Self-stabilising Byzantine Clock Synchronisation is Almost as Easy as Consensus

Christoph Lenzen, Joel Rybicki

arxiv:1705.06173 v4 · 2017-05-17 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KHSERILWEBJCDHEHANEZWBN54G}

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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	2026-05-17T23:43:43.428229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51e448a1762052219c8703499b05bde1864faa09d0cbba4a284c94b496b0e2e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.06173 · arxiv_version: 1705.06173v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.06173 · pith_short_12: KHSERILWEBJC · pith_short_16: KHSERILWEBJCDHEH · pith_short_8: KHSERILW

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/KHSERILWEBJCDHEHANEZWBN54G \
  | 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: 51e448a1762052219c8703499b05bde1864faa09d0cbba4a284c94b496b0e2e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66ee5bc4c9daf032424e541b1f6516ba1be0b397e6731f9e62468770a38fd77f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-17T14:16:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1dff30f7d5ee5985321eb0e2d91da028f7376dcc7bd4ffe995f30d8c7f9d6a1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.06173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}