Pith Number

pith:LOT5W3KX

pith:2019:LOT5W3KXQNMIT4OADZT2NQCWDI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Authentication by Witness Functions

Emil Pricop, Jaouhar Fattahi, Mohamed Mejri

arxiv:1903.05791 v1 · 2019-03-14 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LOT5W3KXQNMIT4OADZT2NQCWDI}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:16.221172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5ba7db6d57835889f1c01e67a6c0561a17e6c6fe8a13d301b5e0d2fd1ba918c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.05791 · arxiv_version: 1903.05791v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.05791 · pith_short_12: LOT5W3KXQNMI · pith_short_16: LOT5W3KXQNMIT4OA · pith_short_8: LOT5W3KX

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/LOT5W3KXQNMIT4OADZT2NQCWDI \
  | 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: 5ba7db6d57835889f1c01e67a6c0561a17e6c6fe8a13d301b5e0d2fd1ba918c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a6af927a696609cbc965ea904a0744e0ac3554864dcf01a44c00dccaeb19253",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-14T02:18:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dfe02aebb27082368be9b0431e565eac09cb8d39c64a24c0507d8fec26c99045"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.05791",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}