Pith Number

pith:LMQBAJH4

pith:2012:LMQBAJH466UHXLP6MHHEUMV6D6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Verifiable Computation with Massively Parallel Interactive Proofs

Hanspeter Pfister, Justin Thaler, Michael Mitzenmacher, Mike Roberts

arxiv:1202.1350 v3 · 2012-02-07 · cs.DC · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LMQBAJH466UHXLP6MHHEUMV6D6}

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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	2026-05-18T04:01:49.209196Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b201024fcf7a87badfe61ce4a32be1fa5218851d7775ee1777942b59f676212

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.1350 · arxiv_version: 1202.1350v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.1350 · pith_short_12: LMQBAJH466UH · pith_short_16: LMQBAJH466UHXLP6 · pith_short_8: LMQBAJH4

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/LMQBAJH466UHXLP6MHHEUMV6D6 \
  | 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: 5b201024fcf7a87badfe61ce4a32be1fa5218851d7775ee1777942b59f676212

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "008a8f32298d9c1260917cd32fea5efbc3d24e7d5714b8b2f1186c9c6b2b2301",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-07T04:42:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68c1c3a92683e85d81d27ecebe2ddbc7c21a3da91c47866fd18ac7b28dac3cb2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.1350",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}