Pith Number

pith:PLK6SGSE

pith:2017:PLK6SGSEDOLYBDJRRNDBMF6ZU5

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A Las Vegas algorithm to solve the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem

Ayan Mahalanobis, Vivek Mallick

arxiv:1703.07544 v3 · 2017-03-22 · cs.CR · cs.IT · math.AG · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PLK6SGSEDOLYBDJRRNDBMF6ZU5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:31.392556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ad5e91a441b97808d318b461617d9a754bdf9628843a9718b62f7b913cc6dd0

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07544 · arxiv_version: 1703.07544v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07544 · pith_short_12: PLK6SGSEDOLY · pith_short_16: PLK6SGSEDOLYBDJR · pith_short_8: PLK6SGSE

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/PLK6SGSEDOLYBDJRRNDBMF6ZU5 \
  | 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: 7ad5e91a441b97808d318b461617d9a754bdf9628843a9718b62f7b913cc6dd0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "934a54cd3f2f770c27d4bbc95d4e7d45b82c3bf014eb0d94629a1f1ed6eb6c1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.AG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-22T07:03:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af2ba7639cb99fb0abe77690c3f75a11fbc0ca56d6c23014515cd9df3cd55490"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07544",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}