Pith Number

pith:LSCX7TVF

pith:2010:LSCX7TVFH3GCVXMD2WK74NVSKK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Digital Identity in The Absence of Authorities: A New Socio-Technical Approach

Gerard Briscoe, Mark McLaughlin, Paul Malone

arxiv:1011.0192 v1 · 2010-10-31 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LSCX7TVFH3GCVXMD2WK74NVSKK}

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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	2026-05-18T04:37:30.449671Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c857fcea53ecc2add83d595fe36b25296bb04a789fff0f99b8f15e2a31e0217

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.0192 · arxiv_version: 1011.0192v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.0192 · pith_short_12: LSCX7TVFH3GC · pith_short_16: LSCX7TVFH3GCVXMD · pith_short_8: LSCX7TVF

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/LSCX7TVFH3GCVXMD2WK74NVSKK \
  | 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: 5c857fcea53ecc2add83d595fe36b25296bb04a789fff0f99b8f15e2a31e0217

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d8c3cd60227c0d9d9cefab6d99bf8913f2dc982064edb6a339c2008578119c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-31T18:56:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d392cb10e55e392f479467e01e796f5db568ec66be3ee17b858578472c238d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.0192",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}