Pith Number

pith:X3WMRD6H

pith:2012:X3WMRD6H3OPTCNPX3FOUNJU2QB

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Octopus: A Secure and Anonymous DHT Lookup

Nikita Borisov, Qiyan Wang

arxiv:1203.2668 v1 · 2012-03-12 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X3WMRD6H3OPTCNPX3FOUNJU2QB}

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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	2026-05-18T04:00:15.011863Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

beecc88fc7db9f3135f7d95d46a69a804bea838131c2a4d326c70c4f85d5b680

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.2668 · arxiv_version: 1203.2668v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.2668 · pith_short_12: X3WMRD6H3OPT · pith_short_16: X3WMRD6H3OPTCNPX · pith_short_8: X3WMRD6H

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/X3WMRD6H3OPTCNPX3FOUNJU2QB \
  | 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: beecc88fc7db9f3135f7d95d46a69a804bea838131c2a4d326c70c4f85d5b680

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3d1ad69410ed9ee08f895cdc1326262a7fb3b7a49450b9b9d5b362ffd959a44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-12T22:50:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2dc453d0743fd434a4e023db6f8a462b7921d736a3f60b67080c763852d9eb2b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.2668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}