Pith Number

pith:MJEDZCQ3

pith:2020:MJEDZCQ3YUIAGRRAJYN2CXFQP4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Privacy Preserving Passive DNS

Nikolaos Pitropakis, Owen Lo, Pavlos Papadopoulos, Sokratis Katsikas, William J. Buchanan

arxiv:2008.06430 v1 · 2020-08-14 · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MJEDZCQ3YUIAGRRAJYN2CXFQP4}

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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	2026-07-05T01:27:09.384383Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62483c8a1bc5100346204e1ba15cb07f15bb630b59e4c70b62e18b71420f42bf

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.06430 · arxiv_version: 2008.06430v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.06430 · pith_short_12: MJEDZCQ3YUIA · pith_short_16: MJEDZCQ3YUIAGRRA · pith_short_8: MJEDZCQ3

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/MJEDZCQ3YUIAGRRAJYN2CXFQP4 \
  | 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: 62483c8a1bc5100346204e1ba15cb07f15bb630b59e4c70b62e18b71420f42bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da4fc231d65cea3ba9fce8b36136fc2c4f4f7e1eff214541bea46c5a512173ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-14T15:54:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acd3e9d12a1f3b29bcf454ac099b1b72c7993fbc9cdd7abb76f4feec20d625a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.06430",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}