Pith Number

pith:P6ZVTL5D

pith:2011:P6ZVTL5DUT5KGEY63OMNQCXANE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stable, scalable, decentralized P2P file sharing with non-altruistic peers

Barlas O\u{g}uz, Ilkka Norros, Venkat Anantharam

arxiv:1107.3166 v1 · 2011-07-15 · cs.NI · cs.DC · cs.SI · cs.SY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P6ZVTL5DUT5KGEY63OMNQCXANE}

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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	2026-05-18T04:17:14.676433Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7fb359afa3a4faa3131edb98d80ae069391d4385dc9bacba08b9e852194c7d32

Aliases

arxiv: 1107.3166 · arxiv_version: 1107.3166v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1107.3166 · pith_short_12: P6ZVTL5DUT5K · pith_short_16: P6ZVTL5DUT5KGEY6 · pith_short_8: P6ZVTL5D

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/P6ZVTL5DUT5KGEY63OMNQCXANE \
  | 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: 7fb359afa3a4faa3131edb98d80ae069391d4385dc9bacba08b9e852194c7d32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64827601c347ade97c6a2941ffaa5251c67c6bc3232bba57f001e0d42f392023",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.SI",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2011-07-15T21:03:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0b2b5e0e0945f4aa4a1472175a5a3fe00c7b43b85c751be767b5fc81195d82f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1107.3166",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}