Pith Number

pith:VRYDKSWC

pith:2018:VRYDKSWCXUOANKUBVKQDNAFGET

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

i2kit: A Tool for Immutable Infrastructure Deployments based on Lightweight Virtual Machines specialized to run Containers

Cesar Sanchez, Felipe Gorostiaga, Pablo Chico de Guzman

arxiv:1802.10375 v1 · 2018-02-28 · cs.DC · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VRYDKSWCXUOANKUBVKQDNAFGET}

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:17.320215Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac70354ac2bd1c06aa81aaa03680a624ed1b278e8aa7b80036c275ea2db3279c

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.10375 · arxiv_version: 1802.10375v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.10375 · pith_short_12: VRYDKSWCXUOA · pith_short_16: VRYDKSWCXUOANKUB · pith_short_8: VRYDKSWC

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/VRYDKSWCXUOANKUBVKQDNAFGET \
  | 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: ac70354ac2bd1c06aa81aaa03680a624ed1b278e8aa7b80036c275ea2db3279c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9756adca04c7a090e38895b6fd755249f1190e3a7bef054a631161455284f080",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-28T11:51:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8020e23da0091dc6d88ffcf728154ed5df436f78055960bc82bd1c0aadcc4484"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.10375",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}