Pith Number

pith:VR5AUEN3

pith:2011:VR5AUEN3NOPN2K77CE75YUTDUF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Practicality of `Practical' Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Konstantinos Kokordelis, Mema Roussopoulos, Nikos Chondros

arxiv:1110.4854 v1 · 2011-10-21 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VR5AUEN3NOPN2K77CE75YUTDUF}

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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	2026-05-18T04:10:34.855450Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac7a0a11bb6b9edd2bff113fdc5263a1458259b6bfd7c198e58727cf782a7ba6

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.4854 · arxiv_version: 1110.4854v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.4854 · pith_short_12: VR5AUEN3NOPN · pith_short_16: VR5AUEN3NOPN2K77 · pith_short_8: VR5AUEN3

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/VR5AUEN3NOPN2K77CE75YUTDUF \
  | 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: ac7a0a11bb6b9edd2bff113fdc5263a1458259b6bfd7c198e58727cf782a7ba6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b72affef13a36cbd4649b7332ae26a48d199efebb7220863a672681351817a6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-21T18:02:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d20fcef8dcdc8620527d7ba14e3a81b02fc787d8a1da791033ecd835cffa906"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.4854",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}