Pith Number

pith:NIGZMS2N

pith:2010:NIGZMS2NO5WRU3ZDKRBLBCAPT3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How not to share a set of secrets

K. R. Sahasranand, Nithin Nagaraj, S. Rajan

arxiv:1001.1877 v3 · 2010-01-12 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NIGZMS2NO5WRU3ZDKRBLBCAPT3}

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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	2026-05-18T04:40:56.030466Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a0d964b4d776d1a6f235442b0880f9ed0587bfb75b9c1ee3331790a55b6b7e6

Aliases

arxiv: 1001.1877 · arxiv_version: 1001.1877v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1001.1877 · pith_short_12: NIGZMS2NO5WR · pith_short_16: NIGZMS2NO5WRU3ZD · pith_short_8: NIGZMS2N

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/NIGZMS2NO5WRU3ZDKRBLBCAPT3 \
  | 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: 6a0d964b4d776d1a6f235442b0880f9ed0587bfb75b9c1ee3331790a55b6b7e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e46291c442dd457f45e69338120972b3ee8c391a2e3ec486e8c90bbea05755d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-01-12T14:50:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba001d80b7121a579a944643e046e4264a08d1e70893bd757a4a2d917764c2f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1001.1877",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}