Pith Number

pith:F2GTCZPV

pith:2026:F2GTCZPVCKZFEH2PJD4L34PHKO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Backward-Compatible Protocol Upgrade for HotNets

Michael Schapira, Paolo Costa

arxiv:2606.25786 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.NI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F2GTCZPVCKZFEH2PJD4L34PHKO}

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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	2026-06-25T01:18:15.095499Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2e8d3165f512b2521f4f48f8bdf1e7539102330779988540263a521a84e8ff76

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.25786 · arxiv_version: 2606.25786v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.25786 · pith_short_12: F2GTCZPVCKZF · pith_short_16: F2GTCZPVCKZFEH2P · pith_short_8: F2GTCZPV

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/F2GTCZPVCKZFEH2PJD4L34PHKO \
  | 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: 2e8d3165f512b2521f4f48f8bdf1e7539102330779988540263a521a84e8ff76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d731b1195c65023c688092df32bf79b699258b91c73d587f16aee47b8c1f7184",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T13:04:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f61afb9d9c4e4aec836b381568ba9cdc0cbd4555da1752a904baa8b8a2e7d0af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.25786",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}