Pith Number

pith:RTONSWJ2

pith:2025:RTONSWJ2Z7IPGNRMCLEB7YYHRV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Anti-Fraud Laws Become a Barrier to Computer Science Research

Andrew Sellars, Madelyne Xiao, Sarah Scheffler

arxiv:2502.02767 v2 · 2025-02-04 · cs.CY

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RTONSWJ2Z7IPGNRMCLEB7YYHRV}

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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	2026-07-05T10:10:10.667330Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cdcd9593acfd0f3362c12c81fe3078d656f8cb71a31321051f8798cbc6f9489

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.02767 · arxiv_version: 2502.02767v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.02767 · pith_short_12: RTONSWJ2Z7IP · pith_short_16: RTONSWJ2Z7IPGNRM · pith_short_8: RTONSWJ2

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/RTONSWJ2Z7IPGNRMCLEB7YYHRV \
  | 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: 8cdcd9593acfd0f3362c12c81fe3078d656f8cb71a31321051f8798cbc6f9489

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b23fe95f2209c64944e4d42dbf68f6dd64a35d5e9c4667054ce34ceb677ccca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-04T23:14:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a46989f129ae3106e08c53206e0593b9535e8d1d22290fcc4c24e47420e6a785"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.02767",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}