Pith Number

pith:U57I5AZL

pith:2014:U57I5AZLA2AXQ6OAF4KIORYALO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Blindspot: Indistinguishable Anonymous Communications

Joseph Gardiner, Shishir Nagaraja

arxiv:1408.0784 v2 · 2014-08-04 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U57I5AZLA2AXQ6OAF4KIORYALO}

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:48.262424Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a77e8e832b06817879c02f148747005bb8cb3a141a2026e19865c15420a191d9

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.0784 · arxiv_version: 1408.0784v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.0784 · pith_short_12: U57I5AZLA2AX · pith_short_16: U57I5AZLA2AXQ6OA · pith_short_8: U57I5AZL

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/U57I5AZLA2AXQ6OAF4KIORYALO \
  | 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: a77e8e832b06817879c02f148747005bb8cb3a141a2026e19865c15420a191d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a70f48caec6beb952ecc6dd8016ed119a29e9654a3472b142c4fba0836a2bcf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-04T19:35:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b190d5b8ecf4bc32e790a9a40787fda865ad328961ab797c1a208eaee13e8181"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.0784",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}