Pith Number

pith:OVWSYIKI

pith:2016:OVWSYIKIRMY6HXR2MVGBZOK5TV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Loop-Free Forwarding of Anonymous Internet Datagrams that Enforce Provenance

J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

arxiv:1612.05998 v1 · 2016-12-18 · cs.NI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OVWSYIKIRMY6HXR2MVGBZOK5TV}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:29:51.938105Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

756d2c21488b31e3de3a654c1cb95d9d599064dee3b659dd80242527531b697d

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.05998 · arxiv_version: 1612.05998v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.05998 · pith_short_12: OVWSYIKIRMY6 · pith_short_16: OVWSYIKIRMY6HXR2 · pith_short_8: OVWSYIKI

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/OVWSYIKIRMY6HXR2MVGBZOK5TV \
  | 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: 756d2c21488b31e3de3a654c1cb95d9d599064dee3b659dd80242527531b697d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de2b05044e9a27ff505b3dd31534e1cd7dc108ac83f25e5e62b4689d90ab97aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-18T21:48:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f05b3d194364811c6e165c73d73e9054a253427c06fbc6068a7bd2392bf78c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.05998",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}