Pith Number

pith:SORSMSBD

pith:2017:SORSMSBD4JOPUYWCZSVOYJ6ZT4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Status Updates Over Unreliable Multiaccess Channels

Roy D. Yates, Sanjit K. Kaul

arxiv:1705.02521 v1 · 2017-05-06 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SORSMSBD4JOPUYWCZSVOYJ6ZT4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:50.960349Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93a3264823e25cfa62c2ccaaec27d99f1a546411cdc2d74ffa4ce225c6223e8f

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.02521 · arxiv_version: 1705.02521v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.02521 · pith_short_12: SORSMSBD4JOP · pith_short_16: SORSMSBD4JOPUYWC · pith_short_8: SORSMSBD

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/SORSMSBD4JOPUYWCZSVOYJ6ZT4 \
  | 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: 93a3264823e25cfa62c2ccaaec27d99f1a546411cdc2d74ffa4ce225c6223e8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1838f446246418e09062724c74b2399970c457b158564e02e5ba45c9670c4fef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-06T19:33:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f940c7cc6c94b9110d88d49073eaa97d152395ac03885ff4e4e20731493c23d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.02521",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}