Pith Number

pith:NRM2B5BE

pith:2012:NRM2B5BEKV53F7MOCWSMGJ4HE4

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A Non-Monetary Protocol for Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution in Wireless Broadcast Networks with Network Coding

Alex Sprintson, I-Hong Hou, Yao Liu

arxiv:1212.0286 v2 · 2012-12-03 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NRM2B5BEKV53F7MOCWSMGJ4HE4}

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:55.352519Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c59a0f424557bb2fd8e15a4c32787273abea4f1875996637aa08ef15e143782

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.0286 · arxiv_version: 1212.0286v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.0286 · pith_short_12: NRM2B5BEKV53 · pith_short_16: NRM2B5BEKV53F7MO · pith_short_8: NRM2B5BE

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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/NRM2B5BEKV53F7MOCWSMGJ4HE4 \
  | 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: 6c59a0f424557bb2fd8e15a4c32787273abea4f1875996637aa08ef15e143782

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6275602b295ba254e6916804bfe8966cf77906482f4decd3e9c90c2c138dcebd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-03T05:21:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8824041eb949b6a2384a631171f69fd6dd209563dc2fb448b20cfc1f7c6ca28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.0286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}