Pith Number

pith:VV5KQOKA

pith:2018:VV5KQOKAIB6NFCX4Z4E7UUHCXQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

CertLedger: A New PKI Model with Certificate Transparency Based on Blockchain

Haci Ali Mantar, Mehmet Sabir Kiraz, Murat Yasin Kubilay

arxiv:1806.03914 v2 · 2018-06-11 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VV5KQOKAIB6NFCX4Z4E7UUHCXQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:29.725428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad7aa83940407cd28afccf09fa50e2bc3ea3f177c16d22b88c2ffb3c2f71df08

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.03914 · arxiv_version: 1806.03914v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.03914 · pith_short_12: VV5KQOKAIB6N · pith_short_16: VV5KQOKAIB6NFCX4 · pith_short_8: VV5KQOKA

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/VV5KQOKAIB6NFCX4Z4E7UUHCXQ \
  | 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: ad7aa83940407cd28afccf09fa50e2bc3ea3f177c16d22b88c2ffb3c2f71df08

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "343e5da32d75e7da72a4bc55a2f9a83794a73114ae28810d766ff06f45ae50a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-11T11:24:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b28eee2be3e36e29f696b3e7af7a783457a7b6d34713283bc4a4850ec52f3664"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.03914",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}