Pith Number

pith:VQ3F6R7C

pith:2017:VQ3F6R7CVT3R2C3GBNAYOYKXXW

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Generic Secure Repair for Distributed Storage

Jehoshua Bruck, Wentao Huang

arxiv:1706.00500 v1 · 2017-06-01 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQ3F6R7CVT3R2C3GBNAYOYKXXW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:12.831958Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac365f47e2acf71d0b660b41876157bdbc218430b82b329465d8295b4394f2e7

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.00500 · arxiv_version: 1706.00500v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.00500 · pith_short_12: VQ3F6R7CVT3R · pith_short_16: VQ3F6R7CVT3R2C3G · pith_short_8: VQ3F6R7C

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/VQ3F6R7CVT3R2C3GBNAYOYKXXW \
  | 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: ac365f47e2acf71d0b660b41876157bdbc218430b82b329465d8295b4394f2e7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61c4cf0e889f332d8271ab13065db6ba0eaba04bdc3d737687ed23550103e38d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-01T21:31:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55a2b115bae99da84af9ba9af7a89baf847de49a5326d725d8da1b401bfbda97"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.00500",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}