Pith Number

pith:RUHUUVA3

pith:2017:RUHUUVA3C64RX2KZ6IHFS4ZLAZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decentralized Certificate Authorities

Bargav Jayaraman, David Evans, Hannah Li

arxiv:1706.03370 v3 · 2017-06-11 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RUHUUVA3C64RX2KZ6IHFS4ZLAZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:17.523911Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d0f4a541b17b91be959f20e59732b0640eacf53b481c6c2921d000d1bfd4666

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.03370 · arxiv_version: 1706.03370v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.03370 · pith_short_12: RUHUUVA3C64R · pith_short_16: RUHUUVA3C64RX2KZ · pith_short_8: RUHUUVA3

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/RUHUUVA3C64RX2KZ6IHFS4ZLAZ \
  | 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: 8d0f4a541b17b91be959f20e59732b0640eacf53b481c6c2921d000d1bfd4666

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97d3db91d7098c9f03f642a9699dee3a6db02274cf2f389ba39d1d4c080f947f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-11T16:11:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a24238db72646d2210b15384507fe5746323033967caf4985845fd0010d9a0cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.03370",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}