Pith Number

pith:NKYH7JWF

pith:2016:NKYH7JWF4ZFOYKDAC5ZCQ47YCT

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An Algorithm for Tolerating Crash Failures in Distributed Systems

Geert Deconinck, Rudy Lauwereins, Vincenzo De Florio

arxiv:1601.04231 v1 · 2016-01-16 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NKYH7JWF4ZFOYKDAC5ZCQ47YCT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:45.593679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ab07fa6c5e64aec286017722873f814ec0a5f908845017efc2e2fc7770696b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.04231 · arxiv_version: 1601.04231v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.04231 · pith_short_12: NKYH7JWF4ZFO · pith_short_16: NKYH7JWF4ZFOYKDA · pith_short_8: NKYH7JWF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NKYH7JWF4ZFOYKDAC5ZCQ47YCT \
  | 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: 6ab07fa6c5e64aec286017722873f814ec0a5f908845017efc2e2fc7770696b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "913f4b9e02d35c019289a39eede0f863e254f3f2643a6384d7796d68c9ac9ec9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-16T23:43:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d418b108ebe2f7792024bfe854f7fb0d2aefe1f61780f784c8aeb46d4668bff1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.04231",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}