Pith Number

pith:RPSJAFA5

pith:2017:RPSJAFA5M7L2YPNDTJUX5FTBI6

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Study of Peer-to-Peer Network Based Cybercrime Investigation: Application on Botnet Technologies

Mark Scanlon

arxiv:1712.03455 v1 · 2017-12-10 · cs.CR · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RPSJAFA5M7L2YPNDTJUX5FTBI6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:21.198806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8be490141d67d7ac3da39a697e96614791b42f6238f0fbbd36d1086d7916058c

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.03455 · arxiv_version: 1712.03455v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.03455 · pith_short_12: RPSJAFA5M7L2 · pith_short_16: RPSJAFA5M7L2YPND · pith_short_8: RPSJAFA5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RPSJAFA5M7L2YPNDTJUX5FTBI6 \
  | 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: 8be490141d67d7ac3da39a697e96614791b42f6238f0fbbd36d1086d7916058c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "21127d6f75a2962e1279dd1bdccf1816fa1804d1afa678fb4bdb4ecc4a38f1ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-10T00:18:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d88c20f2609253d9fc6857c513797814a076b0c8571c4d87d1da3c8a79294c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.03455",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}