Pith Number

pith:VMVF3G34

pith:2019:VMVF3G34COOTUIS45WFY72PKWA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Surfing the Web quicker than QUIC via a shared Address Validation

Erik Sy

arxiv:1903.09466 v1 · 2019-03-22 · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMVF3G34COOTUIS45WFY72PKWA}

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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	2026-05-17T23:50:39.560497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab2a5d9b7c139d3a225ced8b8fe9eab007c0c4fc2ef5eed22b22d7296db9c2ca

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.09466 · arxiv_version: 1903.09466v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.09466 · pith_short_12: VMVF3G34COOT · pith_short_16: VMVF3G34COOTUIS4 · pith_short_8: VMVF3G34

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/VMVF3G34COOTUIS45WFY72PKWA \
  | 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: ab2a5d9b7c139d3a225ced8b8fe9eab007c0c4fc2ef5eed22b22d7296db9c2ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "689d8714df4f4be2ecc6ab40619916d55b6e972a9dff711248f7cbba33a8e4b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-22T12:05:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "910582cd31be88bdf254fac2d9a3b18317aa618900ef4cc55b16ba22e2cd8d38"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.09466",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}