Pith Number

pith:ZM7MD4MS

pith:2017:ZM7MD4MSX3Z7O2JABTUI4K7NAU

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Deterministic Browser

Shujiang Wu, Song Li, Yinzhi Cao, Zhanhao Chen

arxiv:1708.06774 v1 · 2017-08-22 · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZM7MD4MSX3Z7O2JABTUI4K7NAU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:52.087478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb3ec1f192bef3f769200ce88e2bed050004284b18b41f3be2f59efd2fb71122

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06774 · arxiv_version: 1708.06774v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06774 · pith_short_12: ZM7MD4MSX3Z7 · pith_short_16: ZM7MD4MSX3Z7O2JA · pith_short_8: ZM7MD4MS

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/ZM7MD4MSX3Z7O2JABTUI4K7NAU \
  | 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: cb3ec1f192bef3f769200ce88e2bed050004284b18b41f3be2f59efd2fb71122

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7e94343f15db80c3d09c16b865e82fb6781576a3fca2fc3741b4aef8b503b3ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-22T18:21:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea68854d6d251030b0b0adb0b9bba10957fded8787256d00a99e8864be37da4d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06774",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}