Pith Number

pith:XCVWUV4Z

pith:2023:XCVWUV4ZYBPOVPPS5W33UEYYSW

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Timeliness: A New Design Metric and a New Attack Surface

Priyanka Kaswan, Sennur Ulukus

arxiv:2312.17220 v1 · 2023-12-28 · cs.IT · cs.NI · eess.SP · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XCVWUV4ZYBPOVPPS5W33UEYYSW}

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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	2026-07-05T07:28:41.014211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8ab6a5799c05eeabdf2edb7ba131895b2964750c718558444b9a6f0db510ff8

Aliases

arxiv: 2312.17220 · arxiv_version: 2312.17220v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.17220 · pith_short_12: XCVWUV4ZYBPO · pith_short_16: XCVWUV4ZYBPOVPPS · pith_short_8: XCVWUV4Z

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/XCVWUV4ZYBPOVPPS5W33UEYYSW \
  | 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: b8ab6a5799c05eeabdf2edb7ba131895b2964750c718558444b9a6f0db510ff8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cdc708be7fe4049d545ff537788750a77ce601b1ccd7842502c9c064a8044d85",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "eess.SP",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2023-12-28T18:50:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8249582ec6600e39f308ef0a75ba6d3f512fe62ee415596876535d7de9cba29"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2312.17220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}