Pith Number

pith:VL6FDYHM

pith:2010:VL6FDYHMR4W5ARSURPVGM6D4SX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An LSB Data Hiding Technique Using Natural Numbers

Ajith Abraham, Sandipan Dey, Sugata Sanyal

arxiv:1003.3966 v1 · 2010-03-21 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VL6FDYHMR4W5ARSURPVGM6D4SX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:47.633235Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aafc51e0ec8f2dd046548bea66787c95e17a3a1b47b59eed37201f85bd2eea6d

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.3966 · arxiv_version: 1003.3966v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.3966 · pith_short_12: VL6FDYHMR4W5 · pith_short_16: VL6FDYHMR4W5ARSU · pith_short_8: VL6FDYHM

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/VL6FDYHMR4W5ARSURPVGM6D4SX \
  | 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: aafc51e0ec8f2dd046548bea66787c95e17a3a1b47b59eed37201f85bd2eea6d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46b87be93f5776c04b4baadef0ac2c4ac812c2a5c12c903e28e0e62861ad3567",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-21T03:10:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70d71e7780ec34e647c3fc5cd7f2c63d5fa8b2b844e30167eea2bc290cad5f67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.3966",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}