Pith Number

pith:XAYAEI5Z

pith:2014:XAYAEI5Z7AMLX7QAUHO7Z2LACG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Censorship Resistance: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom?

Ian Goldberg, Steven J. Murdoch, Tariq Elahi

arxiv:1412.1859 v1 · 2014-12-04 · cs.CR · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XAYAEI5Z7AMLX7QAUHO7Z2LACG}

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:18.530949Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8300223b9f818bbfe00a1ddfce960118843a021e028989631b2b705c711b1d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.1859 · arxiv_version: 1412.1859v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.1859 · pith_short_12: XAYAEI5Z7AML · pith_short_16: XAYAEI5Z7AMLX7QA · pith_short_8: XAYAEI5Z

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/XAYAEI5Z7AMLX7QAUHO7Z2LACG \
  | 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: b8300223b9f818bbfe00a1ddfce960118843a021e028989631b2b705c711b1d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fe4569f2e52e6112c4fc5966bbeef5494148076ec178412a864dd48b73a09c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-04T22:57:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa1b67d541748fe9642eb91c4a6ed3f108efc51a97b5a39d2139fd38c6cf4798"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.1859",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}