Pith Number

pith:LQSMAVJA

pith:2017:LQSMAVJAGY7ZS5GK2NIRBO4PZH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stealthy Secret Key Generation

Carsten Rudolf Janda, Eduard Axel Jorswieck, Pin-Hsun Lin

arxiv:1702.03778 v2 · 2017-02-13 · cs.IT · math.IT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LQSMAVJAGY7ZS5GK2NIRBO4PZH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:50.635940Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c24c05520363f9974cad35110bb8fc9d245c084d5195f88e6a458730c9fc427

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03778 · arxiv_version: 1702.03778v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03778 · pith_short_12: LQSMAVJAGY7Z · pith_short_16: LQSMAVJAGY7ZS5GK · pith_short_8: LQSMAVJA

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/LQSMAVJAGY7ZS5GK2NIRBO4PZH \
  | 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: 5c24c05520363f9974cad35110bb8fc9d245c084d5195f88e6a458730c9fc427

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e84f48867d37e6ccd49524872678baa12ceb5285e5efbe712361f866e5332a54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-13T14:00:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a59445789f916eb3f137723e34b1cc972bf000d82a80cfe106c9e8b15989c2bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03778",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}