Pith Number

pith:WFGRLWRY

pith:2016:WFGRLWRYK3CHSA5CAUYBLAT7PF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Computationally Efficient Covert Communication

Mayank Bakshi, Qiaosheng Zhang, Sidharth Jaggi

arxiv:1607.02014 v2 · 2016-07-07 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WFGRLWRYK3CHSA5CAUYBLAT7PF}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:48.448237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b14d15da3856c47903a2053015827f795499eeff63dd87646993588aeb665d18

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.02014 · arxiv_version: 1607.02014v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.02014 · pith_short_12: WFGRLWRYK3CH · pith_short_16: WFGRLWRYK3CHSA5C · pith_short_8: WFGRLWRY

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/WFGRLWRYK3CHSA5CAUYBLAT7PF \
  | 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: b14d15da3856c47903a2053015827f795499eeff63dd87646993588aeb665d18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ed2cce7e40faccc8855f3654c825fb6971569d8af46f07df40a00b46dc38e80",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-07T13:49:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "916bce943605ae16527d0dcebd265584cb6c7e8e522abacdf2d9ce7228cf566d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.02014",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}