Pith Number

pith:KEZN3MOS

pith:2016:KEZN3MOSZCAWZYHS3EEQ7T224Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Certified randomness between mistrustful players

Carl A. Miller, Yaoyun Shi

arxiv:1610.05140 v1 · 2016-10-17 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KEZN3MOSZCAWZYHS3EEQ7T224Y}

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:46.434781Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5132ddb1d2c8816ce0f2d9090fcf5ae61fd0920be8068d9bb611b9ff6ea0f1ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.05140 · arxiv_version: 1610.05140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.05140 · pith_short_12: KEZN3MOSZCAW · pith_short_16: KEZN3MOSZCAWZYHS · pith_short_8: KEZN3MOS

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/KEZN3MOSZCAWZYHS3EEQ7T224Y \
  | 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: 5132ddb1d2c8816ce0f2d9090fcf5ae61fd0920be8068d9bb611b9ff6ea0f1ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a540a29dedc06568b151139e19a1bee885f94e9be423fe8f84f8b0ad76f246c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-17T14:37:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b81fa22cbd418a4537e42463c4874a8cc2f5900a39a562bacd24f1487c7f981c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.05140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}