Pith Number

pith:VXRJD7XM

pith:2018:VXRJD7XM4CZPSJT7652JNBP6LR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The dangerous path towards your own cryptography method

Antonio M. Batista, Fabiano A.S. Ferrari, Thiago L. Prado, Warley M.S. Alves

arxiv:1812.05440 v1 · 2018-09-26 · 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{VXRJD7XM4CZPSJT7652JNBP6LR}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:20.227093Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ade291feece0b2f9267ff7749685fe5c6571b3a60d75086f4fdbe1b8dc9107b9

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.05440 · arxiv_version: 1812.05440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.05440 · pith_short_12: VXRJD7XM4CZP · pith_short_16: VXRJD7XM4CZPSJT7 · pith_short_8: VXRJD7XM

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/VXRJD7XM4CZPSJT7652JNBP6LR \
  | 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: ade291feece0b2f9267ff7749685fe5c6571b3a60d75086f4fdbe1b8dc9107b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d24519eee8aab68285cea8e2f620a2b9e3239273918420350d6f7709fb1c51a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-26T13:52:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3010f494d538974e3b0ab2b000b4fe97fd85c66dae73419d50f37e7f19312e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.05440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}