Pith Number

pith:MUYHK2W7

pith:2026:MUYHK2W7FLOMAP2MDZM6CGJAAP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hidden Ciphers and Where to Find Them: Static Discovery and Assessment of Cryptographic Assets in Software

Christian N\"ather, Eduard Hirsch

arxiv:2608.04857 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.CR · cs.SE

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MUYHK2W7FLOMAP2MDZM6CGJAAP}

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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	2026-08-06T01:47:24.676584Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6530756adf2adcc03f4c1e59e1192003f267cdaa581bd34cd142b93c123b3453

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04857 · arxiv_version: 2608.04857v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04857 · pith_short_12: MUYHK2W7FLOM · pith_short_16: MUYHK2W7FLOMAP2M · pith_short_8: MUYHK2W7

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/MUYHK2W7FLOMAP2MDZM6CGJAAP \
  | 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: 6530756adf2adcc03f4c1e59e1192003f267cdaa581bd34cd142b93c123b3453

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb47b7cfe550b0db85fabee1325efc59b8eb44990efb97a16062061069aa87c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T13:50:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a327f812dc34f6be3de6ccaf0d37314109328b42f792f6ab215ab98e184842a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04857",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}