Pith Number

pith:VLBTR7R4

pith:2022:VLBTR7R4M6GHW3TCVU354VQFUI

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Secure and Ultra-Reliable Provenance Recovery in Sparse Networks: Strategies and Performance Bounds

Huzur Saran, J. Harshan, Manish Bansal, Sriraam S V, Suraj Sajeev, Yih-Chun Hu

arxiv:2204.00159 v1 · 2022-04-01 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLBTR7R4M6GHW3TCVU354VQFUI}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T04:10:43.748203Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aac338fe3c678c7b6e62ad37de5605a22c14bf348be098698a848f0027fd21e6

Aliases

arxiv: 2204.00159 · arxiv_version: 2204.00159v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2204.00159 · pith_short_12: VLBTR7R4M6GH · pith_short_16: VLBTR7R4M6GHW3TC · pith_short_8: VLBTR7R4

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/VLBTR7R4M6GHW3TCVU354VQFUI \
  | 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: aac338fe3c678c7b6e62ad37de5605a22c14bf348be098698a848f0027fd21e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af9bacb11e1eaeaea18cf38ec9a945df55bf0c5064ead86e676be9df9083bafd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2022-04-01T02:02:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee2a6098b5006fde8a647fc3fba0eced51dee6a86ad2abf2e095d25f25a262c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2204.00159",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}