Pith Number

pith:KYXS6NW3

pith:2026:KYXS6NW3P7RI7IPKADANY6EVHL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Exposed by Design: A Dynamic Security Assessment of Internet-Facing MCP Servers at Scale

Nicol\'as Padilla

arxiv:2608.00150 v1 · 2026-07-31 · cs.CR · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KYXS6NW3P7RI7IPKADANY6EVHL}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-08-04T00:33:04.514123Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

562f2f36db7fe28fa1ea00c0dc78953aca534447d4f3a2232a79de043d265661

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00150 · arxiv_version: 2608.00150v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00150 · pith_short_12: KYXS6NW3P7RI · pith_short_16: KYXS6NW3P7RI7IPK · pith_short_8: KYXS6NW3

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/KYXS6NW3P7RI7IPKADANY6EVHL \
  | 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: 562f2f36db7fe28fa1ea00c0dc78953aca534447d4f3a2232a79de043d265661

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9597af3bf4d0f23c98013d6447e3191c5ad6595b75dc6ab8664ee96ce25f6137",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-31T16:46:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4a55ea9e6724318d7e34e64220216b1ad44cb688f4c4b9de20d3f622e732afd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00150",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}