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.

Machine-readable registry:/canonical-registry.json

Quod scripsi, scripsi — What I have written, I have written