Pith Number

pith:MUHQDVWO

pith:2016:MUHQDVWOJE55JDM6KNSN3LYPOH

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Why Johnny Can't Use Stego: a Human-oriented Perspective on the Application of Steganography

Steffen Wendzel

arxiv:1609.06664 v1 · 2016-09-21 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MUHQDVWOJE55JDM6KNSN3LYPOH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:06.244205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

650f01d6ce493bd48d9e5364ddaf0f71e6c02a0541820adb8f864cfe101a9a93

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.06664 · arxiv_version: 1609.06664v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.06664 · pith_short_12: MUHQDVWOJE55 · pith_short_16: MUHQDVWOJE55JDM6 · pith_short_8: MUHQDVWO

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/MUHQDVWOJE55JDM6KNSN3LYPOH \
  | 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: 650f01d6ce493bd48d9e5364ddaf0f71e6c02a0541820adb8f864cfe101a9a93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed1c20f79b00e0682b2a22a748f3e79edaa1afee6de7377bb33f4a5ee4285a06",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-21T18:26:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26e5624f4e50bbd85dbc9526eae647da545e8cc1720519b98a8a8da695620938"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.06664",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}