Pith Number

pith:R5NNH2L6

pith:2020:R5NNH2L6PNYUI3TNZD55CXROGD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Achieving State Machine Replication without Honest Players

Conor McMenamin, Matteo Pontecorvi, Vanesa Daza

arxiv:2012.10146 v2 · 2020-12-18 · cs.GT · cs.DC · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R5NNH2L6PNYUI3TNZD55CXROGD}

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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	2026-07-05T02:44:34.962502Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f5ad3e97e7b71446e6dc8fbd15e2e30cf61c39c5f0d3929bd8d1b5f2823f548

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.10146 · arxiv_version: 2012.10146v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.10146 · pith_short_12: R5NNH2L6PNYU · pith_short_16: R5NNH2L6PNYUI3TN · pith_short_8: R5NNH2L6

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/R5NNH2L6PNYUI3TNZD55CXROGD \
  | 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: 8f5ad3e97e7b71446e6dc8fbd15e2e30cf61c39c5f0d3929bd8d1b5f2823f548

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eafe70230dd8cf6e38553b86ba730f81fbdfa3c4b5678c302011877c07529795",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-18T10:13:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f1c7fae19d9ac720f3791da2c4bf0f6b0aa19b9df16ce63d0df4334a2948541"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.10146",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}