Chain of custody receipt

Source #81023

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.

TitleFEC candidate overview page, https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H4CA45170/
Original URLhttps://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H4CA45170/
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2024-11-27
EntityDerek Tran
Captured2026-10-10T00:31:56.687Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-10-10T00:31:56.687Z UTC
SHA-2565ebf384c16868ce6aed111e8710f341e9c1a7fca371c5869c964c9f80dd87f45
Content length249 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
FEC candidate profile for DEREK TRAN (CA House District 45, Incumbent, Democratic Party) lists candidate ID H4CA45170 and principal campaign committee DEREK TRAN FOR CONGRESS (C00851790), with a Statement of Candidacy (FEC-1850335) filed 11/27/2024.

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.

Or POST the candidate content to /source/81023/verify and our server will compare for you:

curl -X POST https://www.goblinhouse.net/source/81023/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/81023/receipt.json