Pith Number

pith:VM4LUDAA

pith:2015:VM4LUDAAUUSP5GRGMLGBWUAIE3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stress Testing the Booters: Understanding and Undermining the Business of DDoS Services

Damon McCoy, Mohammad Karami, Youngsam Park

arxiv:1508.03410 v1 · 2015-08-14 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VM4LUDAAUUSP5GRGMLGBWUAIE3}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:17.915554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab38ba0c00a524fe9a2662cc1b500826fc65a6e820773e90b31b749242c208f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.03410 · arxiv_version: 1508.03410v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.03410 · pith_short_12: VM4LUDAAUUSP · pith_short_16: VM4LUDAAUUSP5GRG · pith_short_8: VM4LUDAA

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/VM4LUDAAUUSP5GRGMLGBWUAIE3 \
  | 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: ab38ba0c00a524fe9a2662cc1b500826fc65a6e820773e90b31b749242c208f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aaeec293857bd9c9599e8a2c15aef12c280fde78a95582c64c98aaa0e7e0520e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-14T03:25:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf7f7999e3a97976c8f39b668cd42dfe54ed78502c46d0ffe8da739e8176e1dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.03410",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}