Pith Number

pith:J5ZLYOJU

pith:2011:J5ZLYOJUCHPNBRQFXKL44XG43N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SOBA: Secrecy-preserving Observable Ballot-level Audit

Douglas Jones, Eric Lazarus, Josh Benaloh, Mark Lindeman, Philip B. Stark

arxiv:1105.5803 v2 · 2011-05-29 · stat.AP · cs.CR · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J5ZLYOJUCHPNBRQFXKL44XG43N}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:18:54.297204Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f72bc393411ded0c605ba97ce5cdcdb4f5afdda23ab327885c80a7a1394b08a

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.5803 · arxiv_version: 1105.5803v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.5803 · pith_short_12: J5ZLYOJUCHPN · pith_short_16: J5ZLYOJUCHPNBRQF · pith_short_8: J5ZLYOJU

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/J5ZLYOJUCHPNBRQFXKL44XG43N \
  | 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: 4f72bc393411ded0c605ba97ce5cdcdb4f5afdda23ab327885c80a7a1394b08a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "830d6ebf3c8069a34b61ecaca02b390b4d30648669a7789ceed23a60b026bda7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-29T17:00:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43fe5f53d7d9e1a3f8b3f51b266872bb320b4afb0ff9335ff0cf5f2885c17819"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.5803",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}