Scripta Manent
Canonical Archive
Cryptographically attested publication registry
Epoch Root
Merkle Root (SHA-256)
Protocol
IPFS Canonical Publishing v1.0
Articles
15
Tree Type
Binary Merkle
Hash
SHA-256
Generated
6 March 2026 at 12:10 UTC
The epoch root is the Merkle tree root hash computed from all article content hashes. Any modification to any article will produce a different root, enabling cryptographic verification of corpus integrity.
Independent Verification
Each article’s SHA-256 hash is computed from its deterministic content serialisation (slug + title + section headings/content + citations). The IPFS CIDv1 is derived from the content hash using the raw codec (0x55) and multibase base32lower encoding. Verify any hash by recomputing SHA-256 over the canonical serialisation.
Quod scripsi, scripsi — What I have written, I have written