Pith Number

pith:D5U7BMLU

pith:2026:D5U7BMLU6N6GG27NOH447EEU26

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SHIELDS: Automating OS Hardening with Iterative Multi-Agent Remediation

Aldehir Rojas, Andrew Hamara, Dwight Horne, Lawrence Wong, Nicholas Turoci, Sophie Lamothe, Timothy Kurniawan, Vishal Suresh

arxiv:2606.05476 v1 · 2026-06-03 · cs.CR · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D5U7BMLU6N6GG27NOH447EEU26}

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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	2026-06-05T01:14:52.429633Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f69f0b174f37c636bed71f9cf9094d795e9e2fae74b32a9b83e1a54b3efcfd2

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05476 · arxiv_version: 2606.05476v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05476 · pith_short_12: D5U7BMLU6N6G · pith_short_16: D5U7BMLU6N6GG27N · pith_short_8: D5U7BMLU

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/D5U7BMLU6N6GG27NOH447EEU26 \
  | 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: 1f69f0b174f37c636bed71f9cf9094d795e9e2fae74b32a9b83e1a54b3efcfd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f9c23d375438c1873a4db4ec2031045804d1a17b5525efebbabba889002234cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-03T21:54:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "59c90a232c753d2dd4eba25841aa86cf9aa9308e83b275eac7d8c60ebf24f209"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05476",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}