Pith Number

pith:NV3JIUJ5

pith:2012:NV3JIUJ5QBLRWXGE6ZDN4CLP3G

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A Critical Look at Decentralized Personal Data Architectures

Arvind Narayanan, Dan Boneh, Helen Nissenbaum, Solon Barocas, Vincent Toubiana

arxiv:1202.4503 v1 · 2012-02-21 · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NV3JIUJ5QBLRWXGE6ZDN4CLP3G}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:01:50.503026Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d7694513d80571b5cc4f646de096fd9977341b270d85fd80f0c1e64ee18d2b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.4503 · arxiv_version: 1202.4503v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.4503 · pith_short_12: NV3JIUJ5QBLR · pith_short_16: NV3JIUJ5QBLRWXGE · pith_short_8: NV3JIUJ5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NV3JIUJ5QBLRWXGE6ZDN4CLP3G \
  | 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: 6d7694513d80571b5cc4f646de096fd9977341b270d85fd80f0c1e64ee18d2b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0b129be2fe874522e395c5e7ceb6403b61fb914e3b8ea1f1cd344be4fd61a5f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-21T01:15:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01deab55baba2b35ca33509c2978a22e367060da4b7895b22459cb744aaeae25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.4503",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}