Pith Number

pith:THPV5LTH

pith:2025:THPV5LTHXCMHGVP7CDZCZVLDAJ

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Scout: Leveraging Large Language Models for Rapid Digital Evidence Discovery

Shariq Murtuza

arxiv:2507.18478 v1 · 2025-07-24 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{THPV5LTHXCMHGVP7CDZCZVLDAJ}

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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	2026-07-05T11:42:48.665664Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

99df5eae67b8987355ff10f22cd563027283d5c122127aaed5ab334d8704e2b1

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.18478 · arxiv_version: 2507.18478v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.18478 · pith_short_12: THPV5LTHXCMH · pith_short_16: THPV5LTHXCMHGVP7 · pith_short_8: THPV5LTH

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/THPV5LTHXCMHGVP7CDZCZVLDAJ \
  | 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: 99df5eae67b8987355ff10f22cd563027283d5c122127aaed5ab334d8704e2b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ccb8f9db29cd9e401048d3027e22d74914afd418d980d4abfdd1c7b3d0652fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-24T14:54:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13fbd727df9ff94fad387f11291d84f1c6e1538a51ab1a12036651943533102f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.18478",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}