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 is a shame we were forced to go online to do our vat..”

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 3258673097

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

3a39e992693de3931b2deef2151637495a32f14040a48a1ea31ea9efac6ea76c

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

NZ3t6gQi01RkRYrki2uQjWLem9StIAlgwumlr5M+ZcJSSrIHGD5AcswRHF9n6ubFwssOP57SWl+O3Ii3etK8DQ==

Merkle root

1e69109d842117168677c2c7aab9689ac78923960f86fb642566271a6ebec358

Merkle path

["3a393253897200d41308c6ccc7dafaaffbeac5c2960e2eb7bb60e37559711908","ee8607c9dba5ec0de22144fa169ce25b9c8640ef2638fc9b485d8ad3d998bbe3","14ac1a318eb457a534ea80c28c182ed46a847f69ad56682b0cd04e194358b31c","2ce427cae5e3b53c54908ca27d6654bf316ff2c320701fa0e4279c5c64c11f1d","426b1a3096a3fe73663ca3577f4916cb91afd72f21dd5cad8d5454701080d088","d5b65d2f4439fe3b6c8add70ba66103bbf7b1d34bd1e3dbd584eac78ac7d3a78","df8b8be212fba7bf35803476d622a855efd0ca1e9536fee719918ee8e62d8bd1","566d796ad5d4d4948b422195e848455674ee37fbb48b968fc53e8679b5e88fe9","65c5227565a915fbb279a6b3ada0c77f409c999beebd9ee875bf777d232d3e04","7c669ed85f55af24e13d1bf09ee858f509eb2ca2a048745319c24384b3996674","6318a83c2e1ee58845bf55345bee30468d1ac9d637861e98c85cfc50a904bc5f","c00b3aaccfb9ee06e2f5134db2c03b896d6aa380b3457d17a26c9b0b2171cb84","7c33667a483d5fd3b9ed47c00df3203f479cead457d361a57e3e5a90d1401d8b","4db0e65440b78c494263fe6b915a75fbf2b04ea1cd2fed0eeba5f9cb4589aa37"]

Anchored

2026-10-15

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3258673097 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ab832…

Expected log hash

c57cff5f0f2da5f1c24e09823c0cd10c485830bed55f44ffe5864187f8e896d3 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":"v1792033864449","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:sage","quote":"It is a shame we were forced to go online to do our vat..","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-07-29","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a69c206dcdd3bad3f22d05d","v":1}

Verify in the public log

1. Open the Rekor entry (pre-filled with this proof's log index).
2. In the entry, compare spec.data.hash.value with the "Expected log hash" above: it is the SHA-256 of the Merkle root string (1e69109d8421…), which ties this proof's root to the log entry.
3. Decode spec.signature.publicKey.content from base64: it must equal Citatio's published key at /.well-known/citatio-signing.json.
4. The entry's integratedTime is the independent timestamp: the root, and with it this quote, existed no later than that moment.
5. 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.