Pith Number

pith:W2ASZ4X2

pith:2012:W2ASZ4X2BDE6VIC2622EXEXWXH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Wireless Public key Infrastructure for Mobile Phones

Balachandra Muniyal, Krishna Prakash, Shashank Sharma

arxiv:1212.2563 v1 · 2012-12-11 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2ASZ4X2BDE6VIC2622EXEXWXH}

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:44.236698Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6812cf2fa08c9eaa05af6b44b92f6b9d0fc1e2464b1766ef4c70b7d441899a5

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.2563 · arxiv_version: 1212.2563v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.2563 · pith_short_12: W2ASZ4X2BDE6 · pith_short_16: W2ASZ4X2BDE6VIC2 · pith_short_8: W2ASZ4X2

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/W2ASZ4X2BDE6VIC2622EXEXWXH \
  | 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: b6812cf2fa08c9eaa05af6b44b92f6b9d0fc1e2464b1766ef4c70b7d441899a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da56199e1e716fd1ed3036e901363d67447ede7dc38093b0850fb037e08432a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-11T17:59:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3470d799b5da18b5c5ee7cb728ce01927c3ff82b41fd349e17dd6b0646cb4f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.2563",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}