Pith Number

pith:XLAX3Q4W

pith:2021:XLAX3Q4WDPNHZQVHYQA75MWDO2

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Hardware-Enforced Integrity and Provenance for Distributed Code Deployments

Marcela S. Melara, Mic Bowman

arxiv:2106.09843 v1 · 2021-06-17 · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XLAX3Q4WDPNHZQVHYQA75MWDO2}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

ARMS: A Vision for Actor Reputation Metric Systems in the Open-Source Software Supply Chain

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:50:31.118678Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bac17dc3961bda7cc2a7c401feb2c376b19be1589897cc0b81dccc42c5e862f2

Aliases

arxiv: 2106.09843 · arxiv_version: 2106.09843v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.09843 · pith_short_12: XLAX3Q4WDPNH · pith_short_16: XLAX3Q4WDPNHZQVH · pith_short_8: XLAX3Q4W

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/XLAX3Q4WDPNHZQVHYQA75MWDO2 \
  | 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: bac17dc3961bda7cc2a7c401feb2c376b19be1589897cc0b81dccc42c5e862f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70dece500275ddd174ce83b1ab6aa53222c96a1bb9c58309f96d9d322b8939a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2021-06-17T23:07:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f9504fc0ec1daac2e3fe88db9306a6da1493bac930220a5d78f6353d1fa3d993"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2106.09843",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}