Pith Number

pith:QOY4MQKR

pith:2020:QOY4MQKRIIHZIO2PYR2JHXKNGR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Encryption without Centralization: Distributing DNS Queries Across Recursive Resolvers

Austin Hounsel, Kevin Borgolte, Nick Feamster, Paul Schmitt

arxiv:2002.09055 v3 · 2020-02-20 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QOY4MQKRIIHZIO2PYR2JHXKNGR}

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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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1 paper in Pith

A Survey and Evaluation Framework for Secure DNS Resolution

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:16:29.045891Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83b1c64151420f943b4fc47493dd4d34442d443f757551323903bfe0a630962a

Aliases

arxiv: 2002.09055 · arxiv_version: 2002.09055v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.09055 · pith_short_12: QOY4MQKRIIHZ · pith_short_16: QOY4MQKRIIHZIO2P · pith_short_8: QOY4MQKR

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/QOY4MQKRIIHZIO2PYR2JHXKNGR \
  | 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: 83b1c64151420f943b4fc47493dd4d34442d443f757551323903bfe0a630962a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a105f57a969d2ee16f835e24c35bab87b2df5efd36073040d9ce956a24a1bd62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-02-20T22:54:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fe75cc33d1d327df629c59430b9073c8b9799f93d201db7076910f95153053f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2002.09055",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}