Pith Number

pith:KUEYYTMV

pith:2014:KUEYYTMVLPRRH3ZG5AHE4MOKGC

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How many queries are needed to distinguish a truncated random permutation from a random function?

Ben Morris, Shay Gueron, Shoni Gilboa

arxiv:1412.5204 v1 · 2014-12-16 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KUEYYTMVLPRRH3ZG5AHE4MOKGC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:47.351271Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55098c4d955be313ef26e80e4e31ca30a84a97dd6436bd46ea45f7a05bfb825d

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.5204 · arxiv_version: 1412.5204v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.5204 · pith_short_12: KUEYYTMVLPRR · pith_short_16: KUEYYTMVLPRRH3ZG · pith_short_8: KUEYYTMV

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/KUEYYTMVLPRRH3ZG5AHE4MOKGC \
  | 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: 55098c4d955be313ef26e80e4e31ca30a84a97dd6436bd46ea45f7a05bfb825d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ece56373a630ced286ec40961ff6c93da70fcb7327600b6b101db8c3d32c7aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-16T21:32:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f21d27bfb347c44cf11c5f34b217e428c9e17d20fdda70ccae1041039c37634d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.5204",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}