Pith Number

pith:VF47MFYA

pith:2010:VF47MFYACWMRELQU6QDYWFLYZY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Do AES encryptions act randomly?

Anna Rimoldi, Enrico Bertolazzi, Massimiliano Sala

arxiv:1011.2644 v1 · 2010-11-11 · 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{VF47MFYACWMRELQU6QDYWFLYZY}

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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	2026-05-18T04:36:09.858920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a979f617001599122e14f4078b1578ce09030404206748b7a43b6178104d0625

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.2644 · arxiv_version: 1011.2644v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.2644 · pith_short_12: VF47MFYACWMR · pith_short_16: VF47MFYACWMRELQU · pith_short_8: VF47MFYA

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/VF47MFYACWMRELQU6QDYWFLYZY \
  | 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: a979f617001599122e14f4078b1578ce09030404206748b7a43b6178104d0625

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "250fb0acde99f50b280ac58056422cf43fe5eb877e3cb81a7f0b58a7aa4c46c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-11T13:17:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b967e02ad37c9b0151d915f2597993c58c3b064eace3dd5f5c6c5dbf7b9fa23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.2644",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}