Pith Number

pith:MBZKN6NY

pith:2018:MBZKN6NYDSRGOQQGDZ73X6QXCA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Winning the Caucus Race: Continuous Leader Election via Public Randomness

Patrick McCorry, Sarah Azouvi, Sarah Meiklejohn

arxiv:1801.07965 v3 · 2018-01-24 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBZKN6NYDSRGOQQGDZ73X6QXCA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:28.337298Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6072a6f9b81ca26742061e7fbbfa171015ca65331bc887e50010aff2a3b465a1

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.07965 · arxiv_version: 1801.07965v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.07965 · pith_short_12: MBZKN6NYDSRG · pith_short_16: MBZKN6NYDSRGOQQG · pith_short_8: MBZKN6NY

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/MBZKN6NYDSRGOQQGDZ73X6QXCA \
  | 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: 6072a6f9b81ca26742061e7fbbfa171015ca65331bc887e50010aff2a3b465a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4c968fa0cef8a71060b1838a781e6a3b21c82d3bf2a9de0566be714fd0d7d3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-24T12:47:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9a2a7c58ceab92475aa13f2f7e7e87c378a2b10e958b0f93e653f6b6d6e367c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.07965",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}