Pith Number

pith:XMXIZ472

pith:2015:XMXIZ472424KKNWH2MJXE3R3WT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

BEAD: Best Effort Autonomous Deletion in Content-Centric Networking

Cesar Ghali, Christopher A. Wood, Gene Tsudik

arxiv:1512.07311 v1 · 2015-12-23 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XMXIZ472424KKNWH2MJXE3R3WT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:50.087657Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb2e8cf3fae6b8a536c7d313726e3bb4d19afc68d8a90a361acdf9f21cefed18

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.07311 · arxiv_version: 1512.07311v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.07311 · pith_short_12: XMXIZ472424K · pith_short_16: XMXIZ472424KKNWH · pith_short_8: XMXIZ472

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/XMXIZ472424KKNWH2MJXE3R3WT \
  | 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: bb2e8cf3fae6b8a536c7d313726e3bb4d19afc68d8a90a361acdf9f21cefed18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9abe1f3b142200aa2d3877c6c12fa38dc77bc4419e8953e4f67f48e866c89b37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-23T00:21:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6a7fc893136f2fb214d5358c9985116bc83556c6561e748a28f8292aa67d672"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.07311",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}