Corpus attestation

Goblin House — Corpus Merkle root, 2026-07-31

Daily cryptographic attestation over every sources row in the platform's archive. Anyone can rebuild this root from the platform's public source receipts and verify that the corpus on that date hashed to exactly this string. If it doesn't match, the corpus has been altered.

Date (UTC)2026-07-31
Merkle roota067f1e661fb544f943e0ea7542256ff8282fccbd6260ae7637f3be25dc78472
Total sources covered36,618
Max source id68,833
Signature9a8c6c6b167dca1506f563987933f4d8344c11553fcbcca872f2aeadc54279af
Signature algorithmHMAC-SHA256(date | root | total_sources)
External publish URL(not yet pinned externally)
Computed at2026-07-31T23:18:59.165Z
Independent witnessesnone yet — run the Goblin Grid in the TCG to witness this root

How to verify this attestation

  1. Pull every source receipt for id in [1..68,833]:
    for id in 1..68833; do
      curl -s https://www.goblinhouse.net/source/$id/receipt.json | jq -r '.custody.contentHash // empty'
    done > leaves.txt
  2. Compute the Merkle root over the resulting hex hashes — sorted ascending by source.id, hashed as raw hex strings (no decoding), Bitcoin-style odd-level duplication. Reference implementation:
    function pairHash(l, r) { return sha256(l + r) }
    function root(level) {
      while (level.length > 1) {
        const next = []
        for (let i = 0; i < level.length; i += 2)
          next.push(pairHash(level[i], level[i + 1] ?? level[i]))
        level = next
      }
      return level[0]
    }
  3. Compare the computed root to a067f1e661fb544f943e0ea7… above. If they match, the corpus on 2026-07-31 contained exactly the documents whose hashes you fetched. If they don't, one or more documents have been altered, removed, or added since the attestation was published.

The signature is a server-side HMAC — it prevents one curator from silently swapping the row, but it does NOT prove third-party-verifiable integrity (we hold the key). For that, future versions will swap to an asymmetric signature with a publicly-pinned verification key.

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