Pith Number

pith:WAXCRJOG

pith:2017:WAXCRJOGDCGSKDKCDEY7HL5WNP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Linear Symmetric Private Information Retrieval for MDS Coded Distributed Storage with Colluding Servers

Mikael Skoglund, Qiwen Wang

arxiv:1708.05673 v1 · 2017-08-17 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WAXCRJOGDCGSKDKCDEY7HL5WNP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:49.348806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b02e28a5c6188d250d421931f3afb66bf1a092292dbd0fd5b61c813f0d8af114

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.05673 · arxiv_version: 1708.05673v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.05673 · pith_short_12: WAXCRJOGDCGS · pith_short_16: WAXCRJOGDCGSKDKC · pith_short_8: WAXCRJOG

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/WAXCRJOGDCGSKDKCDEY7HL5WNP \
  | 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: b02e28a5c6188d250d421931f3afb66bf1a092292dbd0fd5b61c813f0d8af114

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca92749dd998a98b0dd251a757ae449acd5c56d5c221a7a7db0dba1a915c978e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-17T17:09:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e76c42b97b9bc947d08af03424b1381ba41a32ecca4ecdede690dfbe8d15699"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.05673",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}