Pith Number

pith:ZS52BRW5

pith:2015:ZS52BRW5CYFKDWTYY3DYC73U7E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Links as a Service (LaaS): Feeling Alone in the Shared Cloud

Alex Shpiner, Avinoam Kolodny, Eitan Zahavi, Isaac Keslassy, Ori Rottenstreich

arxiv:1509.07395 v2 · 2015-09-24 · cs.DC · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZS52BRW5CYFKDWTYY3DYC73U7E}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:11.963234Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccbba0c6dd160aa1da78c6c7817f74f92ea22c32961ff85a9054d840d8382bf1

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.07395 · arxiv_version: 1509.07395v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.07395 · pith_short_12: ZS52BRW5CYFK · pith_short_16: ZS52BRW5CYFKDWTY · pith_short_8: ZS52BRW5

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/ZS52BRW5CYFKDWTYY3DYC73U7E \
  | 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: ccbba0c6dd160aa1da78c6c7817f74f92ea22c32961ff85a9054d840d8382bf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bfa04cf9cdc9ce6a5a466277891951b53b532b1f4b6d2b59c5d73f8af6114266",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-24T14:49:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12e6ae4de8c8555c2e4e60690cd19d8d86c65ca623fa39bae9b78c4806ec21f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.07395",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}