Pith Number

pith:CUQH2LHI

pith:2017:CUQH2LHINYBZAPOOFUIIY3V3F3

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Enabling the Remote Acquisition of Digital Forensic Evidence through Secure Data Transmission and Verification

Mark Scanlon

arxiv:1712.02529 v1 · 2017-12-07 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CUQH2LHINYBZAPOOFUIIY3V3F3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:33.725015Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

15207d2ce86e03903dce2d108c6ebb2ee891d7f5522f12c728dd2c8294fc1e02

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.02529 · arxiv_version: 1712.02529v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.02529 · pith_short_12: CUQH2LHINYBZ · pith_short_16: CUQH2LHINYBZAPOO · pith_short_8: CUQH2LHI

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/CUQH2LHINYBZAPOOFUIIY3V3F3 \
  | 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: 15207d2ce86e03903dce2d108c6ebb2ee891d7f5522f12c728dd2c8294fc1e02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebc88644c4845fec33694f2798b7a4ea9c9bb8e38a83ebe3c09f42a51b48d584",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-07T08:10:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a87a49d7e7d318fe6b1bc3702a7e013f91660eae45e12d2177e5a88207f7c73e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.02529",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}