Pith Number

pith:WGPHLEES

pith:2023:WGPHLEESFQNBTSN2FRA2FFWEBX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

All Byzantine Agreement Problems are Expensive

Anton Paramonov, Jovan Komatovic, Manuel Vidigueira, Pierre Civit, Rachid Guerraoui, Seth Gilbert

arxiv:2311.08060 v2 · 2023-11-14 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WGPHLEESFQNBTSN2FRA2FFWEBX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T07:12:56.119990Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b19e7590922c1a19c9ba2c41a296c40dcb44bd3e8b084b0365c440ad41f4d092

Aliases

arxiv: 2311.08060 · arxiv_version: 2311.08060v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.08060 · pith_short_12: WGPHLEESFQNB · pith_short_16: WGPHLEESFQNBTSN2 · pith_short_8: WGPHLEES

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/WGPHLEESFQNBTSN2FRA2FFWEBX \
  | 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: b19e7590922c1a19c9ba2c41a296c40dcb44bd3e8b084b0365c440ad41f4d092

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5147fa9daaaa70c92fdb4abea68fda9b8edd9403830557d920c0b52b86c5c0a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-11-14T10:33:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c4abd46172b8661781cf75263a0bd5beb032ba45b6ce76170a998bc327532e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2311.08060",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}