Pith Number

pith:T3TKWMCT

pith:2012:T3TKWMCT7VMLL5I54ZW2EAAEZU

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An Enciphering Scheme Based on a Card Shuffle

Ben Morris, Phillip Rogaway, Viet Tung Hoang

arxiv:1208.1176 v2 · 2012-08-06 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T3TKWMCT7VMLL5I54ZW2EAAEZU}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T02:33:07.920266Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9ee6ab3053fd58b5f51de66da20004cd109d563bd56919037bf68cda38189a76

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.1176 · arxiv_version: 1208.1176v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.1176 · pith_short_12: T3TKWMCT7VML · pith_short_16: T3TKWMCT7VMLL5I5 · pith_short_8: T3TKWMCT

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/T3TKWMCT7VMLL5I54ZW2EAAEZU \
  | 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: 9ee6ab3053fd58b5f51de66da20004cd109d563bd56919037bf68cda38189a76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b19264bc8baea6ccca673f0d732d4460f1bc3b0413aefeb5d3ff8c28a5dc857",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-06T14:50:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23372bea1e36b4aa7dd808e909011618a4a9335e93bd7a266050046bb8c0d3dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.1176",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}