Pith Number

pith:QRGXKZ4J

pith:2012:QRGXKZ4JSA7ILV2A7YEFWC4ZIO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Auditing for Distributed Storage Systems

Alexandros G. Dimakis, Anh Le, Athina Markopoulou

arxiv:1203.1730 v5 · 2012-03-08 · cs.CR · cs.DC · cs.NI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QRGXKZ4JSA7ILV2A7YEFWC4ZIO}

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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	2026-05-18T02:52:04.398572Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

844d756789903e85d740fe085b0b9943b25bd36f7840ef7d5feef9299d2c3aea

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.1730 · arxiv_version: 1203.1730v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.1730 · pith_short_12: QRGXKZ4JSA7I · pith_short_16: QRGXKZ4JSA7ILV2A · pith_short_8: QRGXKZ4J

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/QRGXKZ4JSA7ILV2A7YEFWC4ZIO \
  | 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: 844d756789903e85d740fe085b0b9943b25bd36f7840ef7d5feef9299d2c3aea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d2d982c28d91ba6ec5ca15ded6dff93d5673a672abefd842722bb97db7e3cdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-08T10:10:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "232a9ec463a589a14b28955794c920bf2d32f2a47a03d16b9f81825147cebf5a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.1730",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}