Pith Number

pith:QPJ3CWW5

pith:2024:QPJ3CWW5MCPFJX4NBY3SY3X7MM

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A Study of Malware Prevention in Linux Distributions

Duc-Ly Vu, John Speed Meyers, Karla Obermeier-Velazquez, Paul Gibert, Santiago Torres-Arias, Thanh-Cong Nguyen, Trevor Dunlap

arxiv:2411.11017 v3 · 2024-11-17 · cs.CR · cs.SE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QPJ3CWW5MCPFJX4NBY3SY3X7MM}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T11:39:45.746576Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83d3b15add609e54df8d0e372c6eff631b1761e53ba3bb6156333f45d3f6af59

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.11017 · arxiv_version: 2411.11017v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.11017 · pith_short_12: QPJ3CWW5MCPF · pith_short_16: QPJ3CWW5MCPFJX4N · pith_short_8: QPJ3CWW5

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/QPJ3CWW5MCPFJX4NBY3SY3X7MM \
  | 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: 83d3b15add609e54df8d0e372c6eff631b1761e53ba3bb6156333f45d3f6af59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b20cf192a560826fdf9da4e1712b711ff6cdb8a872d81042398fee94951e6863",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-17T09:42:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "013b070a4588dbb6a3583d6fb9203dddb1c8ffb0cfc54b6ced06ca21c9de0c86"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.11017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}