Pith Number

pith:UCND3UGK

pith:2026:UCND3UGKY7AQ4O435N5MG5S6QM

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Not All Roads Lead to Rome: How VPN Selection Alters What We Measure and Infer about Web Infrastructure

Alexander Gamero-Garrido, Robert Ricci, Sachin Kumar Singh

arxiv:2605.30692 v1 · 2026-05-29 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UCND3UGKY7AQ4O435N5MG5S6QM}

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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	2026-06-01T01:03:08.641833Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a09a3dd0cac7c10e3b9beb7ac3765e83305fbb502271a5d20c171b72e9fcc771

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30692 · arxiv_version: 2605.30692v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30692 · pith_short_12: UCND3UGKY7AQ · pith_short_16: UCND3UGKY7AQ4O43 · pith_short_8: UCND3UGK

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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/UCND3UGKY7AQ4O435N5MG5S6QM \
  | 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: a09a3dd0cac7c10e3b9beb7ac3765e83305fbb502271a5d20c171b72e9fcc771

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9126226efa1aa54b1a69abd3e5a8aee2fa251b6ea307bff6d895985d5ee02157",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-29T00:36:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46195be50502bf9430b47a23ce2f203129568da6f20593c79b72e997f13278a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.30692",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}