Pith Number

pith:QTUV3TD2

pith:2018:QTUV3TD2AWS33R37HGIJKFJLQD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Control Plane Compression

Aarti Gupta, David Walker, Ratul Mahajan, Ryan Beckett

arxiv:1806.08744 v1 · 2018-06-22 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QTUV3TD2AWS33R37HGIJKFJLQD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:36.248061Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84e95dcc7a05a5bdc77f399095152b80e87558171b7bdfd1f5eaaf3d34ccb97c

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.08744 · arxiv_version: 1806.08744v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.08744 · pith_short_12: QTUV3TD2AWS3 · pith_short_16: QTUV3TD2AWS33R37 · pith_short_8: QTUV3TD2

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/QTUV3TD2AWS33R37HGIJKFJLQD \
  | 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: 84e95dcc7a05a5bdc77f399095152b80e87558171b7bdfd1f5eaaf3d34ccb97c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6a8586ad9f39e34e297221e1293dd795c33d3a47041d68e60109ab9571e2286",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-22T16:12:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db8483958737dfe3f270991bb3f09e24670db2c889e690dee489ebed3a730535"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.08744",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}