Pith Number

pith:PFRSDTLF

pith:2025:PFRSDTLFMKSXT2JNNV6536NNXW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Unwritten Contract of Cloud-based Elastic Solid-State Drives

Ming-Chang Yang, Yingjia Wang

arxiv:2508.17372 v1 · 2025-08-24 · cs.PF · cs.ET

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PFRSDTLFMKSXT2JNNV6536NNXW}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-07-05T12:00:51.957284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

796321cd6562a579e92d6d7dddf9adbdbb1d6184faf209992683514bf74d34b4

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.17372 · arxiv_version: 2508.17372v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.17372 · pith_short_12: PFRSDTLFMKSX · pith_short_16: PFRSDTLFMKSXT2JN · pith_short_8: PFRSDTLF

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/PFRSDTLFMKSXT2JNNV6536NNXW \
  | 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: 796321cd6562a579e92d6d7dddf9adbdbb1d6184faf209992683514bf74d34b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b2daaa136938b4eb91f521c9b9fa18ecf33f173f540d279aa45a6b58d86bb3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PF",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-24T14:07:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7569fe65d63ec8d80b69f492b626049de1e66fdb3d7a731f3d30bbb06faf596"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.17372",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}