Pith Number

pith:V4GXCXEH

pith:2026:V4GXCXEHTF4YKRNQ6BO4EEFXCB

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Steganalysis of Adaptive Covert Collusion in Tool-Using Agent Populations: A Black-Box, Cross-Principal Approach

Mohamed Chahine Ghanem

arxiv:2608.02698 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.CR · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4GXCXEHTF4YKRNQ6BO4EEFXCB}

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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	2026-08-05T00:39:26.916644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af0d715c8799798545b0f05dc210b7106ba5650bd63031ff66b79e4527ab7747

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02698 · arxiv_version: 2608.02698v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02698 · pith_short_12: V4GXCXEHTF4Y · pith_short_16: V4GXCXEHTF4YKRNQ · pith_short_8: V4GXCXEH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V4GXCXEHTF4YKRNQ6BO4EEFXCB \
  | 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: af0d715c8799798545b0f05dc210b7106ba5650bd63031ff66b79e4527ab7747

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28ce252367b18ae53fc7cf5af38377743d340cf45943edbc33a50ec2f24ae691",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T13:00:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "290de34f7adfe23a7a1719135aa83895fefb2c23580ad591866a32d3ff596cac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02698",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}