Corpus attestation

Goblin House — Corpus Merkle root, 2026-10-13

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)2026-10-13
Merkle root9354c70e6ac0b0fc17ad81c95bf707e5d188baad08d2bcee3cd7372e1cb4f5b8
Total sources covered46,498
Max source id81,053
Signature439a02a22398139745e6ac3eeac0a3879ba02f634daa1ba94379ee82e2bef3fe
Signature algorithmHMAC-SHA256(date | root | total_sources)
External publish URL(not yet pinned externally)
Computed at2026-10-13T01:59:02.011Z
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..81,053]:
    for id in 1..81053; 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 9354c70e6ac0b0fc17ad81c9… above. If they match, the corpus on 2026-10-13 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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