Corpus attestation

Goblin House — Corpus Merkle root, 2026-09-30

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)2026-09-30
Merkle root68c07f2e2273df3139665811f96faff56a4b82a4a3973b68bc07de4cd6e6365c
Total sources covered42,450
Max source id76,549
Signatureba47a5bcc937796cdf02f10af3c89fce5b3840b1b36d77403efb3dc9a0ca7294
Signature algorithmHMAC-SHA256(date | root | total_sources)
External publish URL(not yet pinned externally)
Computed at2026-09-30T01:57:11.770Z
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..76,549]:
    for id in 1..76549; 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 68c07f2e2273df3139665811… above. If they match, the corpus on 2026-09-30 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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