Pith Number

pith:Q55SU46Z

pith:2025:Q55SU46ZDIINCTXEGEP7TNX5WL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Byzantine Fault Tolerant Protocols with Near-Constant Work per Node without Signatures

Philipp Schneider

arxiv:2501.05377 v2 · 2025-01-09 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q55SU46ZDIINCTXEGEP7TNX5WL}

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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	2026-07-05T10:10:47.762392Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

877b2a73d91a10d14ee4311ff9b6fdb2df7fe104850465922d41c35a75465e0c

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.05377 · arxiv_version: 2501.05377v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.05377 · pith_short_12: Q55SU46ZDIIN · pith_short_16: Q55SU46ZDIINCTXE · pith_short_8: Q55SU46Z

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/Q55SU46ZDIINCTXEGEP7TNX5WL \
  | 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: 877b2a73d91a10d14ee4311ff9b6fdb2df7fe104850465922d41c35a75465e0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a63509f5521f68788834d014354e0ca8ae2758fea2e837615823fb2f9c0b9fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-09T16:59:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ac3677242391fa17af720b1bf17d4c9a9af8d980d2760ecdfd2452d68c8573d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.05377",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}