Pith Number

pith:MSHLLNV5

pith:2013:MSHLLNV5MR6CU7ELXXVPHA2GIX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Oblivious Query Processing

Arvind Arasu, Raghav Kaushik

arxiv:1312.4012 v1 · 2013-12-14 · 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{MSHLLNV5MR6CU7ELXXVPHA2GIX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:04:36.235114Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

648eb5b6bd647c2a7c8bbdeaf3834645c7e4093b6f2a6bba608226d23cb0f823

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.4012 · arxiv_version: 1312.4012v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.4012 · pith_short_12: MSHLLNV5MR6C · pith_short_16: MSHLLNV5MR6CU7EL · pith_short_8: MSHLLNV5

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/MSHLLNV5MR6CU7ELXXVPHA2GIX \
  | 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: 648eb5b6bd647c2a7c8bbdeaf3834645c7e4093b6f2a6bba608226d23cb0f823

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f899d6e0d8993d6372972a33ada97b3b39f14848a30d606468394b69ee22a60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-14T07:14:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18eef0eba38c33d6dba9bbb2c428700fb123ab7ed2b1b6299a65943a3a7001ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.4012",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}