Pith Number

pith:PBASL6H5

pith:2018:PBASL6H5ROFKH65O5RSRWCDOOR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New Directions for Trust in the Certificate Authority Ecosystem

Benjamin G\"uldenring, Jan-Ole Malchow, Volker Roth

arxiv:1801.00933 v1 · 2018-01-03 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PBASL6H5ROFKH65O5RSRWCDOOR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:48.345179Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

784125f8fd8b8aa3fbaeec651b086e7447751294c83fd40e5cfcb541c7e93355

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.00933 · arxiv_version: 1801.00933v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.00933 · pith_short_12: PBASL6H5ROFK · pith_short_16: PBASL6H5ROFKH65O · pith_short_8: PBASL6H5

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/PBASL6H5ROFKH65O5RSRWCDOOR \
  | 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: 784125f8fd8b8aa3fbaeec651b086e7447751294c83fd40e5cfcb541c7e93355

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de33dc5327370fc2f823bb8720b7af3c2d658dc5bfa58143ad4b73f16b7cd6d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-03T09:35:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a50f6f935b23bc625abb102352a71e5a62a2539081cbe67186acfeb8d8b23049"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.00933",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}