Pith Number

pith:FBMPVI76

pith:2013:FBMPVI76N3MUUA53REWXNQ6D56

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Vive la Diff\'erence: Paxos vs. Viewstamped Replication vs. Zab

Fred B. Schneider, Nicolas Schiper, Robbert van Renesse

arxiv:1309.5671 v3 · 2013-09-23 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FBMPVI76N3MUUA53REWXNQ6D56}

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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	2026-05-18T02:57:35.634159Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2858faa3fe6ed94a03bb892d76c3c3efb2ab27760354039d2992bf3d3ab9aafb

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.5671 · arxiv_version: 1309.5671v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.5671 · pith_short_12: FBMPVI76N3MU · pith_short_16: FBMPVI76N3MUUA53 · pith_short_8: FBMPVI76

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/FBMPVI76N3MUUA53REWXNQ6D56 \
  | 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: 2858faa3fe6ed94a03bb892d76c3c3efb2ab27760354039d2992bf3d3ab9aafb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88c1da4017ae7a4d119e7aed5cdabe84549d490426c3aa029211b18e14ec00e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-23T00:31:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c87b3ab88087d42e0cffbbe37609bcef8a2de2ca48556cb18eb82303e657162"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.5671",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}