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”

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 2514602687

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

08a5b11e407881d4a59a5993103949b8b5c6da9c99037786114be3cc6b8a282c

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

varbObdSRtvQf5cWiUoOFIB6VM4BASLBb4Spyc4NK48LuAH5uLAdOcuhjRunuAX0xpLsAiKEgiKbLXrabCooCg==

Merkle root

749703591848535a8600340214debbd99b61273e3bed402bec28b292f90ce9b6

Merkle path

["08a98b5938ace4e554af4724d2d06b863718ef2bdb13a3bad58857fd25be2247","b6cf719b7a0c6579f5b5c2502af689672b23acba4ea8344570b3850cbe362dd2","005f1d69c00ad0fdb56b5df60e82035ab33b37cfc3eefd5d49d9c6744c08db1f","61baff182b22aa0893ef6d5268298ccc95c89f414feea9af43b958c273c228f2","0ab8297e705f3e670f907f96b1feba687ba427158fab4a1401db9f29a10ea6dd","834641b3f4de06cc9bfd93e84daa2ddc098a19ac97bf40da1bc1b7efbf9cd036","205642300da5eb3b065d8162f33f57169b01ad9c8e52cc8419d40753602fe6f6","bb44220f1813eb1ed5da37ce47f42a160d369a1fb1c0242622be9fec7e97215b","ee1f9afa55c948d342ca1d6e096f236bf167a99a3cd9ec056fc5b57beb6dc753","76a5a152622f7f8eaf4a3d2405555aded905dcd88ffa2baa5db0ff038bc023a4","0c8a54ec2f885cc371d0c300cb3b016acfb0dbc6c0d5fca12f43e42e90fc244d","a7574a1284f296e344531b28e98ffbc4091b43e8e280936e3f14d9482fb06f49","34c0dfbb126009f4c79d4469e45bcea801fec7d101a7b81a66d8a0095ff6d708","f43a1936699be5b728ab2cee5100b0cce7fa6828f7bb521f1ba149ba44cd48a1","bc5d1d560a30e83fe0f1b6a9452dc46dc135b1a7f73575ec3aa5d459bb76fc8b"]

Anchored

2026-08-19

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2514602687 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ac525…

Expected log hash

e53e7f935eb508100ef1046b60c784e0bda15dd54afae176c275a97cf1f64052 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":"v1787131269839","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

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 (749703591848…), 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.