Pith Number

pith:SYLM4LPH

pith:2017:SYLM4LPHQRZYBD5ERYJ65YRBCW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unified Host and Network Data Set

Alexander D. Kent, Curtis Hash, Melissa J. M. Turcotte

arxiv:1708.07518 v1 · 2017-08-24 · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SYLM4LPHQRZYBD5ERYJ65YRBCW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:42.767399Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9616ce2de78473808fa48e13eee22115b70473019154e92a610840cc07f6606e

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07518 · arxiv_version: 1708.07518v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07518 · pith_short_12: SYLM4LPHQRZY · pith_short_16: SYLM4LPHQRZYBD5E · pith_short_8: SYLM4LPH

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/SYLM4LPHQRZYBD5ERYJ65YRBCW \
  | 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: 9616ce2de78473808fa48e13eee22115b70473019154e92a610840cc07f6606e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c929e7ed70aee2741c070538e378b60abf92eb222c2010308ce67f07ffaf6ae7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-24T18:07:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74f3ee97588d7a832317591032abc0c58dc06ddf72889786921b4b0703d79a33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.07518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}