Pith Number

pith:Y5CNAR6E

pith:2018:Y5CNAR6EK7ZFTWQIM7V3SRAUI2

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The latest gossip on BFT consensus

Ethan Buchman, Jae Kwon, Zarko Milosevic

arxiv:1807.04938 v3 · 2018-07-13 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y5CNAR6EK7ZFTWQIM7V3SRAUI2}

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Record completeness

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:21:04.882083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c744d047c457f259da0867ebb944144685cceeb0dbf14f022979b1b107b2b188

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.04938 · arxiv_version: 1807.04938v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.04938 · pith_short_12: Y5CNAR6EK7ZF · pith_short_16: Y5CNAR6EK7ZFTWQI · pith_short_8: Y5CNAR6E

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/Y5CNAR6EK7ZFTWQIM7V3SRAUI2 \
  | 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: c744d047c457f259da0867ebb944144685cceeb0dbf14f022979b1b107b2b188

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1bfdc7c8936c99257ac8006be948dff072f34aec551b045aef4da2470c4b0b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-13T06:53:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af1aa679da8e40253a4ba48caeb21f56f03d556d11b74f9111ab31a576169130"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.04938",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}