Pith Number

pith:SDZWPMXV

pith:2016:SDZWPMXV43JR5MQLK34KK3LJ7T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Trends toward real-time network data steganography

James Collins, Sos Agaian

arxiv:1604.02778 v1 · 2016-04-11 · cs.MM · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SDZWPMXV43JR5MQLK34KK3LJ7T}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:22.194000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

90f367b2f5e6d31eb20b56f8a56d69fcc471f8b280b7e4a333c281fdb73ed206

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.02778 · arxiv_version: 1604.02778v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.02778 · pith_short_12: SDZWPMXV43JR · pith_short_16: SDZWPMXV43JR5MQL · pith_short_8: SDZWPMXV

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/SDZWPMXV43JR5MQLK34KK3LJ7T \
  | 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: 90f367b2f5e6d31eb20b56f8a56d69fcc471f8b280b7e4a333c281fdb73ed206

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d9ad4eb9e0035f1733f976ca15e20c1a770b62432c1c6d771b3e76321b231b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-11T02:58:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7431caec616c9e636654216dd6d0c6742179615baf3d59272ee4d1a958e8eec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.02778",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}