Pith Number

pith:R36NKF5W

pith:2016:R36NKF5WCYQSQGG6B3X4KLHEHI

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Optimal Differentially Private Mechanisms for Randomised Response

Douglas J. Leith, Naoise Holohan, Oliver Mason

arxiv:1612.05568 v1 · 2016-12-16 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R36NKF5WCYQSQGG6B3X4KLHEHI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:43.954000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8efcd517b616212818de0eefc52ce43a18854e0e487e1bf21861f18f5cd62b67

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.05568 · arxiv_version: 1612.05568v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.05568 · pith_short_12: R36NKF5WCYQS · pith_short_16: R36NKF5WCYQSQGG6 · pith_short_8: R36NKF5W

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/R36NKF5WCYQSQGG6B3X4KLHEHI \
  | 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: 8efcd517b616212818de0eefc52ce43a18854e0e487e1bf21861f18f5cd62b67

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c39f949aa61fad2f88ce3a322b153c57fb0f1166dce19bb52cbcf2f467907af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-16T17:38:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40c32fc8f82dfd5d858fea05b6315dae1125d16e222d13c7cc1b1e1ca1f9fd45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.05568",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}