Pith Number

pith:VY5MPRXB

pith:2012:VY5MPRXBRO4SQUXEIC6V3PIKKX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

BotMosaic: Collaborative Network Watermark for Botnet Detection

Amir Houmansadr, Nikita Borisov

arxiv:1203.1568 v2 · 2012-03-07 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VY5MPRXBRO4SQUXEIC6V3PIKKX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:21:17.207469Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae3ac7c6e18bb92852e440bd5dbd0a55fb76b518d1b74e78a7472ddbf59aea24

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.1568 · arxiv_version: 1203.1568v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.1568 · pith_short_12: VY5MPRXBRO4S · pith_short_16: VY5MPRXBRO4SQUXE · pith_short_8: VY5MPRXB

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/VY5MPRXBRO4SQUXEIC6V3PIKKX \
  | 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: ae3ac7c6e18bb92852e440bd5dbd0a55fb76b518d1b74e78a7472ddbf59aea24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "970bfdfae8b9f1d6f628a0ee297c704d367ea926036c5ecf6b8c6570d5f2e0fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-07T18:51:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9cb8f48e976470ddc75c160adc624385ee5f46c76c8516cbb0a33b32f06cdb28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.1568",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}