Corpus attestation

Goblin House — Corpus Merkle root, 2026-09-29

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)2026-09-29
Merkle rootd9a75c4c40e0b88de9ccd0c4a46710e4b88d3f53ef829a5f8c227da90b315136
Total sources covered42,247
Max source id76,310
Signature2ace13a3b9cd674e597c1647683efad4a1f89c962bd47cba48955be171289c25
Signature algorithmHMAC-SHA256(date | root | total_sources)
External publish URL(not yet pinned externally)
Computed at2026-09-29T01:32:25.463Z
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..76,310]:
    for id in 1..76310; 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 d9a75c4c40e0b88de9ccd0c4… above. If they match, the corpus on 2026-09-29 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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