Pith Number

pith:TNTTASZ5

pith:2018:TNTTASZ5G5U2JCTBTZNKYEBBKR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Few Throats to Choke: On the Current Structure of the Internet

Devashish Gosain, H. B. Acharya, Sambuddho Chakravarty

arxiv:1806.07038 v1 · 2018-06-19 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TNTTASZ5G5U2JCTBTZNKYEBBKR}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:57.627367Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b67304b3d3769a48a619e5aac1021544b7200b29f833facb7f9e5bad17c8deb

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.07038 · arxiv_version: 1806.07038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.07038 · pith_short_12: TNTTASZ5G5U2 · pith_short_16: TNTTASZ5G5U2JCTB · pith_short_8: TNTTASZ5

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/TNTTASZ5G5U2JCTBTZNKYEBBKR \
  | 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: 9b67304b3d3769a48a619e5aac1021544b7200b29f833facb7f9e5bad17c8deb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8f914a16d46b61cebf50c7cae05a766ffabf92eeb99d28ee173b3f3b6f99d1a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-19T04:39:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "333c9bc2279a3d46c02dec1c2e6ab6faf78073b4b6a717b8b660b992663e4e9a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.07038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}