Pith Number

pith:U3MNQTYE

pith:2018:U3MNQTYERPKPDYXNCZADV4JMWA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Erasure code-based low storage blockchain node

Doriane Perard, J\'er\^ome Lacan, Jonathan Detchart, Yann Bachy

arxiv:1805.00860 v1 · 2018-05-02 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U3MNQTYERPKPDYXNCZADV4JMWA}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:57.452289Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6d8d84f048bd4f1e2ed16403af12cb02f1bf48c62afe9df1ce265ccd82b4dc0

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.00860 · arxiv_version: 1805.00860v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.00860 · pith_short_12: U3MNQTYERPKP · pith_short_16: U3MNQTYERPKPDYXN · pith_short_8: U3MNQTYE

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/U3MNQTYERPKPDYXNCZADV4JMWA \
  | 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: a6d8d84f048bd4f1e2ed16403af12cb02f1bf48c62afe9df1ce265ccd82b4dc0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a4a4e126a82f9139d5a76da4544b3f6151b5408c84492fa77f7c66cc60912be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-02T15:13:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53f0ce6a45c4e6c789ec3eef7b63773074b519a95ff990f6e3d08eecc57e2145"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.00860",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}