Pith Number

pith:CAR7KC2E

pith:2013:CAR7KC2EL36O6TJBNRM6VDZPBP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Verifying the Consistency of Remote Untrusted Services with Conflict-Free Operations

Christian Cachin, Olga Ohrimenko

arxiv:1302.4808 v4 · 2013-02-20 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CAR7KC2EL36O6TJBNRM6VDZPBP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:18.174427Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1023f50b445efcef4d216c59ea8f2f0bc4b9b5f976b2e2c95fde845b004732b8

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.4808 · arxiv_version: 1302.4808v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.4808 · pith_short_12: CAR7KC2EL36O · pith_short_16: CAR7KC2EL36O6TJB · pith_short_8: CAR7KC2E

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/CAR7KC2EL36O6TJBNRM6VDZPBP \
  | 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: 1023f50b445efcef4d216c59ea8f2f0bc4b9b5f976b2e2c95fde845b004732b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6bb3ef04ff7ae28dc540f9372c5ec009b6f1ee3b347a88e82dd4c7c4c77e1c34",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-20T05:22:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "017a00db1be2d0a2324f706b2d020ec0e1dd0e982c41b4891dfa8515661d0675"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.4808",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}