Pith Number

pith:VRWZX56Y

pith:2012:VRWZX56Y3DCMCZCSAPQ3LZRQEM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Clustered Network Coding for Maintenance in Practical Storage Systems

Alexandre van Kempen, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Erwan Le Merrer, Gilles Straub

arxiv:1206.4175 v1 · 2012-06-19 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRWZX56Y3DCMCZCSAPQ3LZRQEM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:53:16.538820Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac6d9bf7d8d8c4c1645203e1b5e6302325d71d37eff2e5a457604994c59f7b51

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.4175 · arxiv_version: 1206.4175v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.4175 · pith_short_12: VRWZX56Y3DCM · pith_short_16: VRWZX56Y3DCMCZCS · pith_short_8: VRWZX56Y

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/VRWZX56Y3DCMCZCSAPQ3LZRQEM \
  | 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: ac6d9bf7d8d8c4c1645203e1b5e6302325d71d37eff2e5a457604994c59f7b51

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b23d22bc37d497ce27f96fe3424745fbf816afbd22dda52fdf04995abaff0b77",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-19T11:01:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "677bdbbb32aeeca660f7e4174e0ba8a0c45d40c5cabb707c0b88e18b355b4059"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.4175",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}