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.

“The online design tool worked extremely poorly.”

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 3637399944

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

00c5e7ea83b217b5912083feae788d79b29d8288d7460703937fb5fc6f63a2a5

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

ag2A/oI8gB54AUSjmiOUcoZfEh4Y6lkchywgvxetMqT6RqoHN5sCp53ZNIjJuud3npwYkdTNNguixhpXlJO7Ag==

Merkle root

7dc417186ff758c181cdbe9905e2a9f7c2944eb88a41e7dbd52a48ac04321d3c

Merkle path

["00bd667f67a48181cf08c9ec2dfa6ced8b75881079c2a944b6cb7ab8329be588","952f7c68dd818ab20d256d916e1c168647f7795f22caefa46a3ce051591516b5","e791db9f4465976f7df4c5e069c5d92422f5027ecfb71fc3b4b08e016e982435","1a2c48c3265ea81e4fbb71efbc7e3c3e784ad294a1f08159e7551e5847c1042f","0d78f91041657a1e67d05eff0050d01b0ebef9d831b0f85107f7b047709e74c2","7aee48bf385a07e6786fee7b314c986e093a5de8ddbb567d175a726576e21303","2383b9cf65753b408b3550fc11ffd9add791d6278b4cd077fe03bbb2bcca39aa","0ce7f44e6d1b18b9e10c6a184e9eab5237c748c6b61da2a46055c2dc348b72f2","bbd1835f89d39cfd67dd7d854e48fff3cddaae5be09df918d5d131d990d3d796","c015003180ba5cb15302d669fc758ce30bfdaad21c37c05eaf61ddfb5e928eb7","416ac72626963bbb3122bf665109ec7d944d4d5c17f5d6ba77ad19d4c322fe84","c55a157ba05a1522cdf00c427814e744bb2583aace026375d741f884a6dc41ca","c2630b6b9ca1d11e16cb99a494743682b41d3604aa81f0e537e045d0ceb25c0e"]

Anchored

2026-11-02

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3637399944 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ab939…

Expected log hash

17b34089c9aa8091fa75e421b51f027dc37b50e8cb79082ca972af63c8cadbbe 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":"v1793587696188","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:cewe","quote":"The online design tool worked extremely poorly.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-07-27","source":"Trusted Shops","source_url":"https://www.trustedshops.de/bewertung/info_XE3D21EA81A56276ACEED1C9AFB85F941.html","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 (7dc417186ff7…), 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.