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Pith Number

pith:M6HXDPDZ

pith:2012:M6HXDPDZKFIVS56YIG3FTBFLT4
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Botnet-based Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks on Web Servers: Classification and Art

B. B. Gupta, Esraa Alomari, Rafeef Alfaris, Selvakumar Manickam, Shankar Karuppayah

arxiv:1208.0403 v1 · 2012-08-02 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M6HXDPDZKFIVS56YIG3FTBFLT4}

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Record completeness

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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T03:49:34.277285Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

678f71bc7951515977d841b65984ab9f2b0817f2f10f57e84c82472aaa31cff7

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.0403 · arxiv_version: 1208.0403v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.0403 · pith_short_12: M6HXDPDZKFIV · pith_short_16: M6HXDPDZKFIVS56Y · pith_short_8: M6HXDPDZ
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M6HXDPDZKFIVS56YIG3FTBFLT4 \
  | 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: 678f71bc7951515977d841b65984ab9f2b0817f2f10f57e84c82472aaa31cff7
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98b1a53360a5ceaec852038768dbfe18015883a35c07bf2e07b6d5b47451ce6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-02T05:35:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee26985c09c36988644e5e2d11e5bc88b86ac34e78096ab0be3fcc80ebed9aee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.0403",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}