Pith Number

pith:SANLPXAJ

pith:2022:SANLPXAJZLSG3JWN4TDMP4BARR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Randomness from Approximate Agreement

Andrei Tonkikh, Luciano Freitas, Petr Kuznetsov

arxiv:2205.11878 v1 · 2022-05-24 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SANLPXAJZLSG3JWN4TDMP4BARR}

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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	2026-07-05T04:26:09.263234Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

901ab7dc09cae46da6cde4c6c7f0208c47310d51d4b5fbb40e09cbcf58ca19cc

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.11878 · arxiv_version: 2205.11878v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.11878 · pith_short_12: SANLPXAJZLSG · pith_short_16: SANLPXAJZLSG3JWN · pith_short_8: SANLPXAJ

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/SANLPXAJZLSG3JWN4TDMP4BARR \
  | 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: 901ab7dc09cae46da6cde4c6c7f0208c47310d51d4b5fbb40e09cbcf58ca19cc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbb40ff97ab31cc3c1ff113a3dea4a484dec385e0685577d4e7d5654cc4e23ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-24T07:54:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a5eb33fb9175f8e244097f7ee080d1585f15c8786585a586b68a6a16eb469fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.11878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}