Pith Number

pith:U27YYJR2

pith:2018:U27YYJR27X7QZY6OGLKJA5HSVX

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Exploiting DRAM Latency Variations for Generating True Random Numbers

Biswajit Ray, B. M. S. Bahar Talukder, Joseph Kerns, Md Tauhidur Rahman, Thomas Morris

arxiv:1808.02068 v2 · 2018-08-06 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U27YYJR27X7QZY6OGLKJA5HSVX}

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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	2026-05-17T23:50:24.462846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6bf8c263afdff0ce3ce32d49074f2adf1160b15a6317cb604480c25c0880db1

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.02068 · arxiv_version: 1808.02068v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.02068 · pith_short_12: U27YYJR27X7Q · pith_short_16: U27YYJR27X7QZY6O · pith_short_8: U27YYJR2

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/U27YYJR27X7QZY6OGLKJA5HSVX \
  | 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: a6bf8c263afdff0ce3ce32d49074f2adf1160b15a6317cb604480c25c0880db1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0c88c5800335052988ac737f9a4701c03dcbd9bf52ad8fa197ae1d1c8f8d51a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-06T19:01:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af70b0933fb7227b3831f692716582b814d1b33ef3826cbedeb6bb62c9e57cfc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.02068",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}