Pith Number

pith:MUOQVF3R

pith:2016:MUOQVF3RO2RQMSKVHMFYRLJPRF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Battling the Digital Forensic Backlog through Data Deduplication

Mark Scanlon

arxiv:1610.00248 v1 · 2016-10-02 · cs.CY · cs.CR · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MUOQVF3RO2RQMSKVHMFYRLJPRF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:31.527396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

651d0a977176a30649553b0b88ad2f8970471e23b47f030faef525449f09603d

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.00248 · arxiv_version: 1610.00248v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.00248 · pith_short_12: MUOQVF3RO2RQ · pith_short_16: MUOQVF3RO2RQMSKV · pith_short_8: MUOQVF3R

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/MUOQVF3RO2RQMSKVHMFYRLJPRF \
  | 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: 651d0a977176a30649553b0b88ad2f8970471e23b47f030faef525449f09603d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "890f389a7a582d41ae98f7e3e3c35752e944af9e7e957928c9039220bc9d1cd7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-02T09:11:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf20836ed014ab647b3fe75152cb0d9619bfded44932d5b45e62327e08bd3f8e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.00248",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}