Pith Number

pith:SNNE2EGZ

pith:2015:SNNE2EGZT2OHGID4PI6E6NA6NH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Privacy through Fake yet Semantically Real Traces

Reza Shokri, Vincent Bindschaedler

arxiv:1505.07499 v1 · 2015-05-27 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SNNE2EGZT2OHGID4PI6E6NA6NH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:00:58.228094Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

935a4d10d99e9c73207c7a3c4f341e69dfa5eebee006647818b91fa795166476

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.07499 · arxiv_version: 1505.07499v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.07499 · pith_short_12: SNNE2EGZT2OH · pith_short_16: SNNE2EGZT2OHGID4 · pith_short_8: SNNE2EGZ

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/SNNE2EGZT2OHGID4PI6E6NA6NH \
  | 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: 935a4d10d99e9c73207c7a3c4f341e69dfa5eebee006647818b91fa795166476

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5135c5bf3652de69880abea993c1eba02e06ab3b4d32ef63f79c813d0ad1ee7f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-27T21:48:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f69f0fb7866ee72153352f7f1feee1f540662e85cbb171d5d451213b30e64b25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.07499",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}