Pith Number

pith:RV4MSNZN

pith:2016:RV4MSNZNMPRDGWZU57HLIUV6YP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Alternative Authentication in the Wild

Joseph Maguire, Karen Renaud

arxiv:1601.05483 v1 · 2016-01-21 · cs.HC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RV4MSNZNMPRDGWZU57HLIUV6YP}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:13.697942Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d78c9372d63e2335b34efceb452bec3f32f1ecbca241ac77264023d5e1ba72b

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.05483 · arxiv_version: 1601.05483v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.05483 · pith_short_12: RV4MSNZNMPRD · pith_short_16: RV4MSNZNMPRDGWZU · pith_short_8: RV4MSNZN

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/RV4MSNZNMPRDGWZU57HLIUV6YP \
  | 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: 8d78c9372d63e2335b34efceb452bec3f32f1ecbca241ac77264023d5e1ba72b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e694a05cbb4dc3d32a39665cdd950e7d0b9b2a0e1a3c22c15c7634551aae22f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-21T00:58:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "749dcbefbefc77d597da6f8c6084ff27b76ff26ece3bd7f267a31ff03d8d230f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.05483",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}