Pith Number

pith:XQSB3AID

pith:2018:XQSB3AIDJ6U5GKZIW6CTVJW3JR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Power of Distributed Verifiers in Interactive Proofs

Eylon Yogev, Merav Parter, Moni Naor

arxiv:1812.10917 v1 · 2018-12-28 · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQSB3AIDJ6U5GKZIW6CTVJW3JR}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:16.766691Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc241d81034fa9d32b28b7853aa6db4c7b7273bf6015c81206f8331fd6ad02ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.10917 · arxiv_version: 1812.10917v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.10917 · pith_short_12: XQSB3AIDJ6U5 · pith_short_16: XQSB3AIDJ6U5GKZI · pith_short_8: XQSB3AID

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/XQSB3AIDJ6U5GKZIW6CTVJW3JR \
  | 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: bc241d81034fa9d32b28b7853aa6db4c7b7273bf6015c81206f8331fd6ad02ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0ff59e1fd8c76cc70550f819266d298a04c73239d9cca290c07460e5e109dfa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-28T07:52:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "139eec75c1f86cbfcd9d492f33e589dc9523fa5b2bdd87aaf5e39677fefa41b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.10917",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}