Pith Number

pith:VR7CMJXB

pith:2017:VR7CMJXBMP2TNOFWJPKCR45GVV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Practical Whole-System Provenance Capture

David Eyers, Jean Bacon, Margo Seltzer, Mark Goldstein, Thomas Moyer, Thomas Pasquier, Xueyuan Han

arxiv:1711.05296 v1 · 2017-11-14 · 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{VR7CMJXBMP2TNOFWJPKCR45GVV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:33.719533Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac7e2626e163f536b8b64bd428f3a6ad7fd7d076b20fcfddfecbe0299e588f1f

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.05296 · arxiv_version: 1711.05296v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.05296 · pith_short_12: VR7CMJXBMP2T · pith_short_16: VR7CMJXBMP2TNOFW · pith_short_8: VR7CMJXB

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/VR7CMJXBMP2TNOFWJPKCR45GVV \
  | 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: ac7e2626e163f536b8b64bd428f3a6ad7fd7d076b20fcfddfecbe0299e588f1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f31ddcd2e15cc7e795c34fe86a2fb2d3b7e47036d5ff26c258281ad2e2fb5d93",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-14T19:46:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9c7db1fcd6f44f87859c73f22ac31fac2ed869b12fed03024a07b7c236d9ff2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.05296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}