Pith Number

pith:PXTCOCI2

pith:2012:PXTCOCI2YVZSWLRPRFNYXXNEWJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Exploring heterogeneity of unreliable machines for p2p backup

Krzysztof Rzadca, Piotr Skowron

arxiv:1212.0427 v2 · 2012-12-03 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PXTCOCI2YVZSWLRPRFNYXXNEWJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:27:32.390513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7de627091ac5732b2e2f895b8bdda4b27b15cea197e3dbf2fdb58672a4774cce

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.0427 · arxiv_version: 1212.0427v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.0427 · pith_short_12: PXTCOCI2YVZS · pith_short_16: PXTCOCI2YVZSWLRP · pith_short_8: PXTCOCI2

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/PXTCOCI2YVZSWLRPRFNYXXNEWJ \
  | 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: 7de627091ac5732b2e2f895b8bdda4b27b15cea197e3dbf2fdb58672a4774cce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "964caf8366fbca303771b2ed0792a227443b329826e2b07ab1349e9b4e94547c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-03T16:09:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a13b516ee4115f25e967329cb97ff91f32f46da4569c5fb7ae347ef9ea76e455"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.0427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}