Pith Number

pith:A56BKZGO

pith:2014:A56BKZGOGIZBLU4SK5JVVBTT4L

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The Henchman Problem: Measuring Secrecy by the Minimum Distortion in a List

Curt Schieler, Paul Cuff

arxiv:1410.2881 v2 · 2014-10-10 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A56BKZGOGIZBLU4SK5JVVBTT4L}

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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	2026-05-18T02:33:00.892743Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

077c1564ce323215d39257535a8673e2df6e4da85a4a2878bb6302f4e6b79758

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.2881 · arxiv_version: 1410.2881v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.2881 · pith_short_12: A56BKZGOGIZB · pith_short_16: A56BKZGOGIZBLU4S · pith_short_8: A56BKZGO

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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/A56BKZGOGIZBLU4SK5JVVBTT4L \
  | 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: 077c1564ce323215d39257535a8673e2df6e4da85a4a2878bb6302f4e6b79758

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0fa99008ff9f2bb666a02c7bca3e62a964e3c790f3bfa11cef5f85cfc64ae78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-10T19:49:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd2af65fbfc53b22681788662b310d1de93b7ae0fcace1b30d3547f2e2a5134e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.2881",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}