Pith Number

pith:VA7AZLQ2

pith:2017:VA7AZLQ2263QWB55KLP4MDNNWX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical Decoding

Jean-Pierre Tillich, Thomas Debris-Alazard

arxiv:1701.07416 v2 · 2017-01-25 · cs.CR · cs.IT · 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{VA7AZLQ2263QWB55KLP4MDNNWX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:06.807499Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a83e0cae1ad7b70b07bd52dfc60dadb5ed27549716290758241c6fc5ce452925

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.07416 · arxiv_version: 1701.07416v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.07416 · pith_short_12: VA7AZLQ2263Q · pith_short_16: VA7AZLQ2263QWB55 · pith_short_8: VA7AZLQ2

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/VA7AZLQ2263QWB55KLP4MDNNWX \
  | 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: a83e0cae1ad7b70b07bd52dfc60dadb5ed27549716290758241c6fc5ce452925

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b418eae213d21451f5dea398226e19347280ca7eab84f62bb4fcd0a926eeb8c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-25T18:22:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8e125fadcf83abcbf8c3a7731c6db7efd38a39e6a2cc3a6f88dceb21066badd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.07416",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}