Pith Number

pith:EHP2FAXS

pith:2026:EHP2FAXSDUNTVVT7V577WRDWW7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Soft Redaction of Image Provenance via Zero-Knowledge Proofs

John Collomosse, Muhammad Awan

arxiv:2608.07063 v1 · 2026-08-07 · cs.CR · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EHP2FAXSDUNTVVT7V577WRDWW7}

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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	2026-08-10T01:13:06.095032Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21dfa282f21d1b3ad67faf7ffb4476b7db671ce524b2553c19293073e7ca590a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07063 · arxiv_version: 2608.07063v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07063 · pith_short_12: EHP2FAXSDUNT · pith_short_16: EHP2FAXSDUNTVVT7 · pith_short_8: EHP2FAXS

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/EHP2FAXSDUNTVVT7V577WRDWW7 \
  | 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: 21dfa282f21d1b3ad67faf7ffb4476b7db671ce524b2553c19293073e7ca590a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e13506712b2c953dc6a8090b01c3efafd9b6fae0bd75eac4db10656c2a4490d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T10:13:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bd00384fd00e2f630b63be9ab49f89c135ca9284a9dab0658b3215fb67f5c6d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07063",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}