Pith Number

pith:QIX6UQCT

pith:2026:QIX6UQCTKTN4CKXP6RYB66I3J2

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NEST: Nascent Encoded Steganographic Thoughts

Artem Karpov

arxiv:2602.14095 v2 · 2026-02-15 · cs.AI · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QIX6UQCTKTN4CKXP6RYB66I3J2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-07T02:19:46.892444Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

822fea405354dbc12aeff4701f791b4e801b9ccc7fc46cc7e2397eec7525e546

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.14095 · arxiv_version: 2602.14095v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.14095 · pith_short_12: QIX6UQCTKTN4 · pith_short_16: QIX6UQCTKTN4CKXP · pith_short_8: QIX6UQCT

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/QIX6UQCTKTN4CKXP6RYB66I3J2 \
  | 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: 822fea405354dbc12aeff4701f791b4e801b9ccc7fc46cc7e2397eec7525e546

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c8227c863dc47347028bf9047c101ece858fa05cec8c1ef5684debcad5256de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-15T11:05:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ed33ffc1219af5eb4883cfb5ae567801dc214a21bebc7033e7588d985bd571b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.14095",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}