Pith Number

pith:SNECD2WR

pith:2017:SNECD2WRCDH5XTULMIOXSYPDDY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

OCDN: Oblivious Content Distribution Networks

Anne Edmundson, Jennifer Rexford, Nick Feamster, Paul Schmitt

arxiv:1711.01478 v1 · 2017-11-04 · cs.NI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SNECD2WRCDH5XTULMIOXSYPDDY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:17.681571Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

934821ead110cfdbce8b621d7961e31e2d0c57704e0f472798052ab991890169

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.01478 · arxiv_version: 1711.01478v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.01478 · pith_short_12: SNECD2WRCDH5 · pith_short_16: SNECD2WRCDH5XTUL · pith_short_8: SNECD2WR

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/SNECD2WRCDH5XTULMIOXSYPDDY \
  | 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: 934821ead110cfdbce8b621d7961e31e2d0c57704e0f472798052ab991890169

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e69ca1a4cd6cdc0f327f1699c4c783277acba638de4465ab3a72d03248d836b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-04T19:12:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e1352b29adc731ff85310b1c36cfa4d0c57ef47bde2a1590dc39d98ac3e0572"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.01478",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}