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pith:NSD46YAM

pith:2023:NSD46YAMOAGJBOPCFBNNVDYISB

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A Review of Attacks Against Language-Based Package Managers

Aarnav M. Bos

arxiv:2302.08959 v1 · 2023-02-17 · cs.SE · cs.CR

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Package Managers \`a la Carte: A Formal Model of Dependency Resolution

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:43:04.558256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c87cf600c700c90b9e2285ada8f08905038119a0296c4c995dce4be4ee511ab

Aliases

arxiv: 2302.08959 · arxiv_version: 2302.08959v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.08959 · pith_short_12: NSD46YAMOAGJ · pith_short_16: NSD46YAMOAGJBOPC · pith_short_8: NSD46YAM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NSD46YAMOAGJBOPCFBNNVDYISB \
  | 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: 6c87cf600c700c90b9e2285ada8f08905038119a0296c4c995dce4be4ee511ab

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56acfebda5e8a979a335126bdce4afaa30bf476aeebf913a7207cce19f17eaf8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2023-02-17T15:46:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cfe04c5ab6c3e08e02a56c327995b6748e128dafcc5caca9a0987bc53a9ee9f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2302.08959",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}