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.

“It’s a great app easy to use understandable”
Apple App Store · 5/5 · 2026-06-18

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 3273402563

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): 0a556e794804d34ed433a050c45ad1a728bd4552fb900ec07479175ad29ee148
Signature (Ed25519, base64): DOnZ1N5xygs2syZNYTxFpgJOK2f3INpXNF+zEc2IP7T2q+4nRWMBB7l20MAoOvNTUcHy8+ho0oR7A72OLCSbBg==
Merkle root: f157206eaf0681e32c282b6c87b482d5b05edc0371242c4555dfe07a805d46ee
Merkle path: ["0a52f9dd7a7bcb87c9f1af040e12ee74507deb00c5722470b7eefd2289f53baf","2d7ca295f21c056e3d0a11265cde3f58d851f5f79ee3e0df32407857930abf7f","6e54d5896bf26991e290c80efdffd5ef219d6d8428fec595817ccc85db6aed26","b5cec32b8e2b85fed3b5ae5ce7d12e29dc48820e152f48c9ffd4d6d1052f84cb","18515126e0c604a854f58f3e56dd7224c13ff642b202174254362f37ebb6d28e","0c41470b8161c9276d42aa123493f2088c0b6ae886d6ba345f35cc63093976c5","f48adecb71ed5667c5e36268002df64d705c951c5a725d268e3cf065d60b8e5f","d0eba80ebe1a53617ad336506a234b17e1b63b41b28b64b602555a691c1c8978","83b20dc9ef78b75a78bb11202b797a892a974c82a5b0bbf46490f06f541171b1","53ec235b3ec2700df8e24ce964576421e1b4292a48306967e43ecd3007606580","9c625a75a9274c71647d761c2cd9f5bf940d702ef86f2a79f09f19f7e4637b11","c983079c81f3fe3701fa74b1f3d07ba4ae521d2aa67e53391f4fd7e312ac9423","18d3f68accc8835a5c40f0c374bff5769347a644756ac8ed830a1459ec4a0187","72cec015fa128b419dcf741d3ca687936e9595c259ab78dfd4256d8340270e61"]
Anchored: 2026-10-16
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 3273402563 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a6df5…
Expected log hash: d39be9954db9139b182dabecbcfa2b9510337ba2b23ae56a3f9ebed18578385c 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":"v1792122859337","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:quickbooks","quote":"It’s a great app easy to use understandable","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-06-18","source":"Apple App Store","source_url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id584606479?see-all=reviews","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 (f157206eaf06…), 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.