Pith Number

pith:NLOKZFES

pith:2017:NLOKZFES3DW5AC56QFYADCBJVC

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Trust Implications of DDoS Protection in Online Elections

Aleksander Essex, Chris Culnane, Mark Eldridge, Vanessa Teague

arxiv:1708.00991 v1 · 2017-08-03 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NLOKZFES3DW5AC56QFYADCBJVC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:40.908113Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6adcac9492d8edd00bbe8170018829a89a65e3bb4925ad7edc8fbb0ffb9ecb34

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.00991 · arxiv_version: 1708.00991v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.00991 · pith_short_12: NLOKZFES3DW5 · pith_short_16: NLOKZFES3DW5AC56 · pith_short_8: NLOKZFES

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/NLOKZFES3DW5AC56QFYADCBJVC \
  | 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: 6adcac9492d8edd00bbe8170018829a89a65e3bb4925ad7edc8fbb0ffb9ecb34

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6936ace56a576718674d40531d71804b72bd816f063b2595662e5b66f2137f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-03T04:19:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a91f9f695308c8b4ec3d0aed2b9c95e9f622cb5690f7dffdd69de2e48ad88473"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.00991",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}