Pith Number

pith:UCEIFTRS

pith:2014:UCEIFTRSF7QIMWNOSCFYCAFINC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Role of Identity in Surveillance

John V. Tucker, Victoria Wang

arxiv:1408.3438 v1 · 2014-08-14 · cs.CY · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UCEIFTRSF7QIMWNOSCFYCAFINC}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T02:45:05.967126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a08882ce322fe08659ae908b8100a8688f9106e315b493a30f1f00d1d7f268d2

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.3438 · arxiv_version: 1408.3438v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.3438 · pith_short_12: UCEIFTRSF7QI · pith_short_16: UCEIFTRSF7QIMWNO · pith_short_8: UCEIFTRS

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/UCEIFTRSF7QIMWNOSCFYCAFINC \
  | 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: a08882ce322fe08659ae908b8100a8688f9106e315b493a30f1f00d1d7f268d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58bdcbec806480a09603ebecedaccf7dfcaa301e8a03dce21c8a74b5ea37107b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-14T22:18:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b48ac37017d1bdcca32b230faa373eb6cbb5b621e59e8af79d39f0dc8ab00f66"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.3438",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}