Chain of custody receipt

Source #3385

Cryptographic attestation that the document below was captured in Goblin House's archive at the timestamp shown, with the hash listed. If the original URL goes dark or its content changes, this receipt remains as evidence of what the public record looked like at capture time.

TitleMultiple SEC press releases and Fortune investigation
Original URLhttps://www.sec.gov/files/Audit-of-SECs-Progress-in-Enhancing-and-Redesigning-the-EDGAR-System.pdf
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2016-10-01
EntitySecurities and Exchange Commission
Captured2026-04-09T14:17:10.292Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-09T14:17:10.292Z UTC
SHA-2567f60bdac33f836a6b11b99ea71cf936c919a1b0d5359d3129986d41bfb1c20db
Content length127 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
EDGAR breach was discovered and addressed in October 2016, but SEC only learned of potential illicit trading use in August 2017

Verifying this receipt

The hash above was computed as:

sha256( coalesce(url, '<no-url>') || '\n' || raw_content )

Anyone with a copy of the original document can verify the match:

  1. Take the URL field and the original document content.
  2. Concatenate url + '\n' + content and SHA-256 it.
  3. Compare to the SHA-256 row above.

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  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/3385/receipt.json