Pith Number

pith:MCR7C7ER

pith:2025:MCR7C7ER5XSPIOLAWA2HGN6V5J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Extended Version: It Should Be Easy but... New Users Experiences and Challenges with Secret Management Tools

Bradley Reaves, Deepthi Mungara, Laurie Williams, Lorenzo Neil, Yasemin Acar

arxiv:2509.09036 v1 · 2025-09-10 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MCR7C7ER5XSPIOLAWA2HGN6V5J}

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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	2026-07-05T12:09:28.158291Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60a3f17c91ede4f43960b0347337d5ea42c6cf2abe7eb820f2cc48608b938fd8

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.09036 · arxiv_version: 2509.09036v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.09036 · pith_short_12: MCR7C7ER5XSP · pith_short_16: MCR7C7ER5XSPIOLA · pith_short_8: MCR7C7ER

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/MCR7C7ER5XSPIOLAWA2HGN6V5J \
  | 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: 60a3f17c91ede4f43960b0347337d5ea42c6cf2abe7eb820f2cc48608b938fd8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25d9f6e1ef0d0baf42e74fc5ca3ee76b3a3f7ba634542556ab122dd6cb0b5161",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-10T22:12:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7b6c35d5697effec7134f4aa169021bc54c64d17f311e0c3242f1fe7f4e6269"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.09036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}