Pith Number

pith:P4SSW3WH

pith:2012:P4SSW3WHYC22MYY7IG7DLH3TAH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Broadcast Using Certified Propagation Algorithm in Presence of Byzantine Faults

Lewis Tseng, Nitin Vaidya, Vartika Bhandari

arxiv:1209.4620 v2 · 2012-09-20 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P4SSW3WHYC22MYY7IG7DLH3TAH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:09:20.117592Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f252b6ec7c0b5a6631f41be359f7301dac41b51c95eb85a0d9f9d7e70ee8931

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.4620 · arxiv_version: 1209.4620v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.4620 · pith_short_12: P4SSW3WHYC22 · pith_short_16: P4SSW3WHYC22MYY7 · pith_short_8: P4SSW3WH

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/P4SSW3WHYC22MYY7IG7DLH3TAH \
  | 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: 7f252b6ec7c0b5a6631f41be359f7301dac41b51c95eb85a0d9f9d7e70ee8931

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d4aa6844f66bae6b2b8ffae6094da80d568de822df38b6ded0aa424cd43c8e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-20T19:15:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc0754ea088a30b745e89136ea6dcd70ce88826c09c19b9090fac8bdead60789"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.4620",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}