Pith Number

pith:VCASKCDM

pith:2020:VCASKCDMEZJFWPFTV5UQ765EON

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Studying Ransomware Attacks Using Web Search Logs

Chandra Maddila, Chetan Bansal, Nikitha Rao, Pantazis Deligiannis

arxiv:2005.00517 v2 · 2020-05-01 · cs.CR · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCASKCDMEZJFWPFTV5UQ765EON}

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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	2026-07-05T01:48:09.242586Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a88125086c26525b3cb3af690ffba4735cf946959af239e6c189ce295fb41594

Aliases

arxiv: 2005.00517 · arxiv_version: 2005.00517v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2005.00517 · pith_short_12: VCASKCDMEZJF · pith_short_16: VCASKCDMEZJFWPFT · pith_short_8: VCASKCDM

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/VCASKCDMEZJFWPFTV5UQ765EON \
  | 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: a88125086c26525b3cb3af690ffba4735cf946959af239e6c189ce295fb41594

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1d66e37f5c9f2ce40afa69795665e1b64b93503200811b22f4328a99212fa67",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2020-05-01T17:44:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "267b78bffa036441a58e432bee4cb063c713f6cc52ff03fbaa2d149b4b35c276"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2005.00517",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}