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Pith Number

pith:PL2ISBQ2

pith:2011:PL2ISBQ2UFMWNH5V5PXNRUFX4S
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An Information-Theoretic Privacy Criterion for Query Forgery in Information Retrieval

David Rebollo-Monedero, Javier Parra-Arnau, Jordi Forn\'e

arxiv:1111.4045 v1 · 2011-11-17 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PL2ISBQ2UFMWNH5V5PXNRUFX4S}

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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T02:21:29.176672Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7af489061aa159669fb5ebeed8d0b7e48c86435841b318ddc6984d7786e84cee

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.4045 · arxiv_version: 1111.4045v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.4045 · pith_short_12: PL2ISBQ2UFMW · pith_short_16: PL2ISBQ2UFMWNH5V · pith_short_8: PL2ISBQ2
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PL2ISBQ2UFMWNH5V5PXNRUFX4S \
  | 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: 7af489061aa159669fb5ebeed8d0b7e48c86435841b318ddc6984d7786e84cee
Canonical record JSON
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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e3861e8e3e2b0ad021d6659493808c6145a6f600786eff6cadca4de973531adc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-17T10:06:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83459403fe004545606df159f357c5ac599309562d8c4074f20e5083a83ed321"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.4045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}