Pith Number

pith:YEG4FKLN

pith:2011:YEG4FKLNOHLW73IJRP25ILIYQQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Kolmogorov complexity and cryptography

Andrej A. Muchnik

arxiv:1106.5433 v1 · 2011-06-27 · cs.CR · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YEG4FKLNOHLW73IJRP25ILIYQQ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:19:13.641571Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c10dc2a96d71d76fed098bf5d42d188432909400ad114d60a63c298955022ec9

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.5433 · arxiv_version: 1106.5433v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.5433 · pith_short_12: YEG4FKLNOHLW · pith_short_16: YEG4FKLNOHLW73IJ · pith_short_8: YEG4FKLN

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/YEG4FKLNOHLW73IJRP25ILIYQQ \
  | 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: c10dc2a96d71d76fed098bf5d42d188432909400ad114d60a63c298955022ec9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "271362a697ed85fffc527b872c00d3b86c981a02adf6d9eea2608849d9980654",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-27T16:27:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf2f3cf9f7dabb2824e5003ef2d7823963aa5712c137743bda8e425efbfdcd26"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.5433",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}