Pith Number

pith:Z32UBDFL

pith:2024:Z32UBDFLYM7G4PQIJKHYAA5EBS

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On the critical path to implant backdoors and the effectiveness of potential mitigation techniques: Early learnings from XZ

Daniel Hofer, Mario Lins, Martin Schwaighofer, Michael Roland, Ren\'e Mayrhofer

arxiv:2404.08987 v1 · 2024-04-13 · cs.CR

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\pithnumber{Z32UBDFLYM7G4PQIJKHYAA5EBS}

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4 Citations open

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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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First computed	2026-07-05T08:07:43.144135Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cef5408cabc33e6e3e084a8f8003a40c9efce844cee7f648ff58ba815a0aeda0

Aliases

arxiv: 2404.08987 · arxiv_version: 2404.08987v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.08987 · pith_short_12: Z32UBDFLYM7G · pith_short_16: Z32UBDFLYM7G4PQI · pith_short_8: Z32UBDFL

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z32UBDFLYM7G4PQIJKHYAA5EBS \
  | 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: cef5408cabc33e6e3e084a8f8003a40c9efce844cee7f648ff58ba815a0aeda0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c6813672e2a312dc3072d52c480eb569e71dd420c6603a80096417bf1ff14be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2024-04-13T12:18:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20771e5522c0fba5ac715747a0875556959bb409bb3ebabcfcf998fdd0f29eff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2404.08987",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}