Pith Number

pith:V653UU2X

pith:2015:V653UU2X62K7GQ6M46VHMOR6G7

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Efficient Gossip Protocols for Verifying the Consistency of Certificate Logs

Adrian Perrig, Ben Laurie, Eran Messeri, Laurent Chuat, Pawel Szalachowski

arxiv:1511.01514 v1 · 2015-11-04 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V653UU2X62K7GQ6M46VHMOR6G7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:22.705178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afbbba5357f695f343cce7aa763a3e37cce414c511a7ddcbb93742b759bab7ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.01514 · arxiv_version: 1511.01514v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.01514 · pith_short_12: V653UU2X62K7 · pith_short_16: V653UU2X62K7GQ6M · pith_short_8: V653UU2X

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/V653UU2X62K7GQ6M46VHMOR6G7 \
  | 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: afbbba5357f695f343cce7aa763a3e37cce414c511a7ddcbb93742b759bab7ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2c7737828aeea15f447479520d3ae1a91a010bfdc10917160716c964de72bab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-04T21:10:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "953d74decc4f14e5cce931c1b286bfe1c8b86a343a24ee3ee878f72ac7df3ead"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.01514",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}