Pith Number

pith:W5O4H5KU

pith:2017:W5O4H5KUYP2UI6VUGREU4UY5JW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Certificate Linking and Caching for Logical Trust

Bing Xie, Jeffrey S. Chase, Qiang Cao, Vamsi Thummala, Yuanjun Yao

arxiv:1701.06562 v1 · 2017-01-22 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W5O4H5KUYP2UI6VUGREU4UY5JW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:12.627518Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b75dc3f554c3f5447ab434494e531d4dbe1cbef1b4c165ef1487d98445543664

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.06562 · arxiv_version: 1701.06562v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.06562 · pith_short_12: W5O4H5KUYP2U · pith_short_16: W5O4H5KUYP2UI6VU · pith_short_8: W5O4H5KU

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/W5O4H5KUYP2UI6VUGREU4UY5JW \
  | 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: b75dc3f554c3f5447ab434494e531d4dbe1cbef1b4c165ef1487d98445543664

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8eb234e85db9215ce14b59c6833497d60f690c84926becef22e6c36fcd8a395",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-22T21:05:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c3d29c7f4df2dbd91020627ff5910065e67e564e6d0db8a4cebac5141be601f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.06562",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}