Pith Number

pith:L7PHLI4X

pith:2017:L7PHLI4XUN3L4RXU4TSFRZCHSP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evaluating Password Advice

David Malone, Hazel Murray

arxiv:1710.09789 v1 · 2017-10-26 · cs.CR · cs.CY · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L7PHLI4XUN3L4RXU4TSFRZCHSP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:20.747802Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5fde75a397a376be46f4e4e458e44793f0d9bf7034236f83135163e15bf6298c

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09789 · arxiv_version: 1710.09789v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09789 · pith_short_12: L7PHLI4XUN3L · pith_short_16: L7PHLI4XUN3L4RXU · pith_short_8: L7PHLI4X

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/L7PHLI4XUN3L4RXU4TSFRZCHSP \
  | 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: 5fde75a397a376be46f4e4e458e44793f0d9bf7034236f83135163e15bf6298c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94210c11e22c6226752d9d97a75d351c29e18ea7ab4dfef566f91b35c6dd36c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-26T16:19:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b16fa72e35c612e3c051938412368d949d489f145ab2ab040a3d70f3a274b58f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09789",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}