Chain of custody receipt

Source #6363

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.

TitleDHS international engagement webpage
Original URLhttps://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202100206650/
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2020-12-19
EntityUS Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Captured2026-04-13T03:07:43.258Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-13T03:07:43.258Z UTC
SHA-256c0d8b1345b944ccf833229a746a78dfe0f7c7b0b477d6f6d60cd2c1634028e02
Content length144 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
DHS maintains personnel stationed in more than 75 countries, representing the third-largest civilian footprint of any US agency working overseas

Verifying this receipt

The hash above was computed as:

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

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  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/6363/receipt.json