Quote verification

This proves the quote below is recorded by Citatio exactly as displayed and has not been altered since it was committed and anchored. It documents Citatio's crawl observation; it does not imply endorsement by the source platform. The quote links to the original review.

“getting it to work at all requires patience”
Google Play · 1/5 · 2026-08-13

Checks (re-run on this request)

✓ Signature — Ed25519 signature over the record hash, verified against the public key at /.well-known/citatio-signing.json
✓ Merkle inclusion — Leaf recomputed through the sibling path to the anchored root
✓ Public transparency log — Sigstore Rekor log index 2621505474

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): 0771b18731c10a3aa464d06ededf4ccc240886c005480ae17e721807c4ff75e6
Signature (Ed25519, base64): sxYB11KxGb+8qAKE/CLC15AVQ83As+5ygG9I6hAyYsegJgMofhWkiP4I2n+v4hOx6i6vm1Q/bNBlu/6LAog5DA==
Merkle root: d07487a7d8598747d5b143d9a16722ca7a83f5bd36bc79d5bf9130c2672dae41
Merkle path: ["076e4797925b11338dd427497392ca9b99dba2cf5d3662c5530a4ea23a122e13","f47b1a39b5446f71403c094b7bf0987402b5168cd86240b417db5db5a6ea6b4c","26b096f8c9752e6215af865b1d34d8fb8eab8b6d4e84c798a9a2e6ac5a944264","f740747e6852bf2114459ee3a5daed6c786a4753de27d442c93c38cfcb2b0101","e909e1183407b10fb129fc1f6ac112a59887c346db82b14051228ad83df9bf67","9a7042c87076898865091c94d2ccfb0ce32dfa8625bd2afe263cf627f76a5384","2386c138e21a386ae7d16c6c371ffaa09574a8079c9079648409057de603fe9f","7cb6d1efc8a35bdae2b9ad6c2a0d132e441ca60a4182e18c18d9565fcabdc71c","6fc331a5c7873b9cbc401ef23d70c467f7c08eb31601845574c92567b92feb1e","ad8bf15d9b7c6d81e14d912a86a64cd3bccfbf7b55c11ec8aefee72270d10057","6cdc6f101c275a381c25ee7c6393bcfd7ea6fb58256b219da2a01c59b46d7464","a0fdfe7690d005e054fb3a90a34d7cb5dfb00910c185dee375fbde390d3c55bd","884e6220e81a9d5982bd71d70ff9eeca2e340f53981f663fa0ca7490cce6445f","39aaf77ef5b3e4cffa994bd58b84219ff7133fe1d71c02bfd8ea2a47d2f7467b","fa743bec0c13730c5e9e6be51f1ac48c3e9e0953b18cdf4cd6390a132151d0a5"]
Anchored: 2026-08-28
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 2621505474 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a1258…
Expected log hash: 7fc4ddca6f65b68d7bb8897b96188547f56c1ba672ff212c685cdf4bf7438da9 The log entry's spec.data.hash.value must equal this value: the SHA-256 of the Merkle root string above. Recompute it yourself from the root to confirm.
Canonical record: {"dataset_version":"v1787887633012","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:proton/quality/en","quote":"getting it to work at all requires patience","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-08-13","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.protonvpn.android","v":1}

Verify in the public log

Open the Rekor entry (pre-filled with this proof's log index).
In the entry, compare spec.data.hash.value with the "Expected log hash" above: it is the SHA-256 of the Merkle root string (d07487a7d859…), which ties this proof's root to the log entry.
Decode spec.signature.publicKey.content from base64: it must equal Citatio's published key at /.well-known/citatio-signing.json.
The entry's integratedTime is the independent timestamp: the root, and with it this quote, existed no later than that moment.
Locally, without any Citatio infrastructure: SHA-256 the canonical record (must equal the record hash), verify the Ed25519 signature against the public key, and fold the hash through the Merkle path (sorted-pair SHA-256) to reach the anchored root.