Pith Number

pith:SP5IAW3H

pith:2018:SP5IAW3H5AFTEXXA2JMIODK54X

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Its All in a Name: Detecting and Labeling Bots by Their Name

David M. Beskow, Kathleen M. Carley

arxiv:1812.05932 v1 · 2018-12-14 · cs.CY

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SP5IAW3H5AFTEXXA2JMIODK54X}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:17.765794Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93fa805b67e80b325ee0d258870d5de5c418464247c9fe66b77393eef13ef885

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.05932 · arxiv_version: 1812.05932v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.05932 · pith_short_12: SP5IAW3H5AFT · pith_short_16: SP5IAW3H5AFTEXXA · pith_short_8: SP5IAW3H

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/SP5IAW3H5AFTEXXA2JMIODK54X \
  | 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: 93fa805b67e80b325ee0d258870d5de5c418464247c9fe66b77393eef13ef885

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc45586deabbe77f940a0059feac6de7ce6855a9c8a968325b1b5bccaaef1703",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-14T13:52:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "661905fb8938e5532aeea68666a5d4f44f4d7b07466d1e64e2b0beb8a047516c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.05932",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}