Pith Number

pith:XZYJKO7N

pith:2015:XZYJKO7NL3GM4ZHXWDGGTX2GBW

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Design Tool To Express Failure Detection Protocols

Chris Blondia, Vincenzo De Florio

arxiv:1504.03449 v1 · 2015-04-14 · 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{XZYJKO7NL3GM4ZHXWDGGTX2GBW}

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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	2026-05-18T02:18:50.913909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be70953bed5eccce64f7b0cc69df460d9b94790369667bffa43d13a70d6121c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.03449 · arxiv_version: 1504.03449v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.03449 · pith_short_12: XZYJKO7NL3GM · pith_short_16: XZYJKO7NL3GM4ZHX · pith_short_8: XZYJKO7N

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/XZYJKO7NL3GM4ZHXWDGGTX2GBW \
  | 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: be70953bed5eccce64f7b0cc69df460d9b94790369667bffa43d13a70d6121c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3633e7039ddb3dbbc3328373d6857fe0895501fcca89ce6964bcf19c97d7d5c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-14T08:13:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab1340c88a189fa962dd2d377b979334f9637139b1d9a16e406b758458bed33d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.03449",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}