Pith Number

pith:OR4MTZKE

pith:2022:OR4MTZKEVFWCS55SRJFXAZXKNF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Zero Botnets: An Observe-Pursue-Counter Approach

Alex Pentland, Andrew Morris, Andrew Prout, Barry Greene, Bruce Maggs, Cary Conrad, Chad Meiners, Douglas Stetson, Jeremy Kepner, Jonathan Bernays, Keeley Erhardt, Kenjiro Cho, Kenji Takahashi, Koichi Suzuki, Leah Walker, Leslie Daigle, Michael Jones, Peter Michaleas, Philip Reiner, Robert Knake, Sandeep Pisharody, Sarah Powazek, Stephen Buckley, Tony Tauber, Vijay Gadepally

arxiv:2201.06068 v1 · 2022-01-16 · cs.CR · cs.CY · cs.NI · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OR4MTZKEVFWCS55SRJFXAZXKNF}

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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	2026-07-05T07:30:42.782433Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7478c9e544a96c2977b28a4b7066ea69794fd0e810436b8d5fdc9dff14be3496

Aliases

arxiv: 2201.06068 · arxiv_version: 2201.06068v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2201.06068 · pith_short_12: OR4MTZKEVFWC · pith_short_16: OR4MTZKEVFWCS55S · pith_short_8: OR4MTZKE

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/OR4MTZKEVFWCS55SRJFXAZXKNF \
  | 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: 7478c9e544a96c2977b28a4b7066ea69794fd0e810436b8d5fdc9dff14be3496

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b6fa92291255995a68b506c97545f971ab3c5e8d66c6b71ba2211524628fb54e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.NI",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2022-01-16T15:17:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc0f629b9e5dfe19d89d68bc42d70bcd266c1713e1b43a8970a95693bc2a038c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2201.06068",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}