Pith Number

pith:OUGEGS5S

pith:2001:OUGEGS5SLB4HL4DI2Z3P5XOJCI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Guaranteeing the diversity of number generators

Adi Shamir, Boaz Tsaban

arxiv:cs/0112014 v5 · 2001-12-12 · cs.CR · cs.CC · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OUGEGS5SLB4HL4DI2Z3P5XOJCI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:37:23.249656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

750c434bb2587875f068d676feddc91202b82a5379090699f9f969732c40848a

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0112014 · arxiv_version: cs/0112014v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0112014 · pith_short_12: OUGEGS5SLB4H · pith_short_16: OUGEGS5SLB4HL4DI · pith_short_8: OUGEGS5S

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/OUGEGS5SLB4HL4DI2Z3P5XOJCI \
  | 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: 750c434bb2587875f068d676feddc91202b82a5379090699f9f969732c40848a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "045d56059704e5ca0c15e1c779133e0b41f61c6c21eb9000f7c241107c87e99c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2001-12-12T18:35:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00b1f2db48556180f515cf7a2536c58ee0617377dd22b666b1f195dca4b1d603"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0112014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}