Pith Number

pith:U6T3UEQD

pith:2017:U6T3UEQDMERGKLWU52BRJXNXA2

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Private Function Retrieval

Mahtab Mirmohseni, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

arxiv:1711.04677 v2 · 2017-11-13 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U6T3UEQDMERGKLWU52BRJXNXA2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:29.910984Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7a7ba12036122652ed4ee8314ddb7068a7c57d5d998523bce2863294202f41b

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.04677 · arxiv_version: 1711.04677v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04677 · pith_short_12: U6T3UEQDMERG · pith_short_16: U6T3UEQDMERGKLWU · pith_short_8: U6T3UEQD

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/U6T3UEQDMERGKLWU52BRJXNXA2 \
  | 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: a7a7ba12036122652ed4ee8314ddb7068a7c57d5d998523bce2863294202f41b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f33b339912436d63b9c09258f6a02c5db96addaaca4d18313b37819dad2469ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-13T16:13:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d345ebdb4703291ebfd30a4c3b7f8b1bb1d251fed936dabf031e0b6c04440b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.04677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}