Pith Number

pith:ST42PESE

pith:2024:ST42PESEONJ5HAJOE7YWVRR3DO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interoperable Provenance Authentication of Broadcast Media using Open Standards-based Metadata, Watermarking and Cryptography

John C. Simmons, Joseph M. Winograd

arxiv:2405.12336 v1 · 2024-05-20 · cs.CR · cs.MM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ST42PESEONJ5HAJOE7YWVRR3DO}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Authenticated Contradictions from Desynchronized Provenance and Watermarking

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:18:25.767779Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94f9a792447353d3812e27f16ac63b1bb85f79c35198c1e447dfa9c959f6c236

Aliases

arxiv: 2405.12336 · arxiv_version: 2405.12336v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.12336 · pith_short_12: ST42PESEONJ5 · pith_short_16: ST42PESEONJ5HAJO · pith_short_8: ST42PESE

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/ST42PESEONJ5HAJOE7YWVRR3DO \
  | 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: 94f9a792447353d3812e27f16ac63b1bb85f79c35198c1e447dfa9c959f6c236

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a36805ae55df1be09e42f8e29318bf231346fa1a261eeaf67d54413d32bfd65f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2024-05-20T19:10:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9e15c5f06405fd8bc332c62d1a4aed32d73a593d9a7acb830a53268c3e7c63f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2405.12336",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}