Pith Number

pith:DWBY72N6

pith:2010:DWBY72N6XFSNX22ST4HKGAKXRG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Selling Privacy at Auction

Aaron Roth, Arpita Ghosh

arxiv:1011.1375 v4 · 2010-11-05 · cs.GT · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DWBY72N6XFSNX22ST4HKGAKXRG}

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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	2026-05-18T04:07:29.364916Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d838fe9beb964dbeb529f0ea3015789a32afef14d8bb6d12c8cb0537cee6390

Aliases

arxiv: 1011.1375 · arxiv_version: 1011.1375v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1011.1375 · pith_short_12: DWBY72N6XFSN · pith_short_16: DWBY72N6XFSNX22S · pith_short_8: DWBY72N6

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/DWBY72N6XFSNX22ST4HKGAKXRG \
  | 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: 1d838fe9beb964dbeb529f0ea3015789a32afef14d8bb6d12c8cb0537cee6390

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d33daf231f2489bda854930cebe40ba6ddf172aa802d57d825b4d8a06be8df9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-11-05T12:04:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "567c82439e82907d34da02737d75c585fdcaaab87a58c2ad0fdea0b0f3300626"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1011.1375",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}