Pith Number

pith:4YKIBW4T

pith:2016:4YKIBW4TXVZGTPMJKTP2RKDF5A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

RankSign: an efficient signature algorithm based on the rank metric

Gilles Z\'emor, Julien Schrek, Olivier Ruatta, Philippe Gaborit

arxiv:1606.00629 v2 · 2016-06-02 · cs.CR · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4YKIBW4TXVZGTPMJKTP2RKDF5A}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:39.718201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e61480db93bd7269bd8954dfa8a865e819d9f878a3ad2902ca478ed0894dddef

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.00629 · arxiv_version: 1606.00629v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.00629 · pith_short_12: 4YKIBW4TXVZG · pith_short_16: 4YKIBW4TXVZGTPMJ · pith_short_8: 4YKIBW4T

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/4YKIBW4TXVZGTPMJKTP2RKDF5A \
  | 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: e61480db93bd7269bd8954dfa8a865e819d9f878a3ad2902ca478ed0894dddef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9ba99112c9063427dd1984c3e0a4f1fa288472443bd468ad01e2ff9c889bf0b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-02T11:26:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57d44c458055801c622e443f2c03c1d51461befba5b91bc5eb254b4a54441301"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.00629",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}