Pith Number

pith:WX6YKQCZ

pith:2017:WX6YKQCZ7KVGMOSYH7JCNAIQZU

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Security Strength Indicator in Fallback Authentication: Nudging Users for Better Answers in Secret Questions

Awanthika Senarath, B. B. Gupta, Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

arxiv:1701.03229 v1 · 2017-01-12 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WX6YKQCZ7KVGMOSYH7JCNAIQZU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:58.173445Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5fd854059faaa663a583fd2268110cd0ec9a292cebc8a4973ad87a150433c7c

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03229 · arxiv_version: 1701.03229v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03229 · pith_short_12: WX6YKQCZ7KVG · pith_short_16: WX6YKQCZ7KVGMOSY · pith_short_8: WX6YKQCZ

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/WX6YKQCZ7KVGMOSYH7JCNAIQZU \
  | 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: b5fd854059faaa663a583fd2268110cd0ec9a292cebc8a4973ad87a150433c7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f5124de9a1f4034719b4d45154b9418401a2bb1ece9d90a68b2198abb7a01c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-12T04:42:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14723eaa92807842fd9e0e15a69181bc74c6559ebfaba3af3d77db5ad827b36c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.03229",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}