Pith Number

pith:MLFYXBF3

pith:2012:MLFYXBF3DCKEFOPUQRKZ4UTRSH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Private Heavy Hitters

Aaron Roth, Justin Hsu, Sanjeev Khanna

arxiv:1202.4910 v3 · 2012-02-22 · cs.DS · cs.CR · cs.DB

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MLFYXBF3DCKEFOPUQRKZ4UTRSH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:01.137256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62cb8b84bb189442b9f484559e527191e94004ed0c6a3907167bdc14e6a03bae

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.4910 · arxiv_version: 1202.4910v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.4910 · pith_short_12: MLFYXBF3DCKE · pith_short_16: MLFYXBF3DCKEFOPU · pith_short_8: MLFYXBF3

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/MLFYXBF3DCKEFOPUQRKZ4UTRSH \
  | 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: 62cb8b84bb189442b9f484559e527191e94004ed0c6a3907167bdc14e6a03bae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2fe2260cf38595c76a9096479006e657965f986bfeb6a104d046606e64b54c6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-22T14:01:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f0f7b5e8d2f540662187058ebb1e0fa0f81cb4ec7b44cb0d137455fec9f42b30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.4910",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}