Pith Number

pith:33CM32EG

pith:2015:33CM32EGYW2UY3YWUMK3HZ4CCY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Secrecy Through Synchronization Errors

Aleksandar Kavcic, Jason Castiglione

arxiv:1501.03542 v2 · 2015-01-15 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{33CM32EGYW2UY3YWUMK3HZ4CCY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:28:47.279354Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dec4cde886c5b54c6f16a315b3e7821603dbfa70dd424df2fe9e17324ce0af81

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.03542 · arxiv_version: 1501.03542v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.03542 · pith_short_12: 33CM32EGYW2U · pith_short_16: 33CM32EGYW2UY3YW · pith_short_8: 33CM32EG

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/33CM32EGYW2UY3YWUMK3HZ4CCY \
  | 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: dec4cde886c5b54c6f16a315b3e7821603dbfa70dd424df2fe9e17324ce0af81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e37fbed00ac1dfc93cfaf9a7104f536f1b7d1bb040143b78a3bb8bba7232488",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-15T00:40:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62d6ffc61b7d832fe4fe4bc2bef212d6ae5222a07801db518ab0792e4d94d5b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.03542",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}