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.

“Connection more likely than not to not connect to a VPN country of your choice.”
Google Play · 3/5 · 2026-08-10

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 3637411721

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): 0997830ba3b120ff00dec04faa81e295e6d5e2729fc2b3ccc169fb58af05dd1c
Signature (Ed25519, base64): l2BcUzmuDBquEBYF1lhMLYpdgv4ObaB139/6+Ko6pLIS13cVu8mqBCdCzFsFnZrWvyZoqoFvzAwpxZMhZaKPBQ==
Merkle root: 7533cb8d8c04dee23596d4ccf0908b735d91b81fe92e605e13c527ecb5deb2d2
Merkle path: ["098c792aa5b1bb717e2a9c2cf525043da8ebd22e5f34a8271b206c117c4434fa","af2b8d8b61277b86cc34ec32c16e3745f0094040a49d0a9cd4c2d22aa0184b0e","bf1a1a3434155c5da34c70d7de2ec34800f1ef5d80f1b96d401d54f5f310e3b2","fbc254ba42a0c43beb819a7a40586144a059c2e81ed0e452e324e6f88f653a55","859016e36556d9c13c3ba6d47a592202be45c8a902fc21da395e9af38983ca93","0945068ab360789055e0848074803eb09a6ea4b3bb6cd2a743e065c49f993467","3364538f62303198376afe0562a74a26efd731bc72448a443c787b6b06023a1f","830a9544919381849169a7172da7efd512ca8e5b9b0ab2c74e8b156c6bf90707","199aabcd0946f46c4f2f3d6456e0e034096e0ba52c4bea5cfb88f89c9fc2a140","25ae60a8f8fb330d6cd23a55bc8cefdc4a8315b384c8339f064084f66e46e400","689b1a284b8a44a437da2dd8aa35cd28112ca06294eb8fb9f0e9f43b406135c2","959618116f7bff6ed2072830f64b1ea0f4df8a2685ac6da49d6c45ba87916262","93bc8fd7f71ba29ff353e3337a18e3fae8da5d9c75f2209b2b67e1af3660ae8e"]
Anchored: 2026-11-02
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 3637411721 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a3165…
Expected log hash: 5dfee0cb2ef036a9452adde296e783557348142e751437e8895b161fe04023f3 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":"v1793587829781","kind":"published-quote","locale":"de","page":"brand:proton","quote":"Connection more likely than not to not connect to a VPN country of your choice.","rating":3,"review_date":"2026-08-10","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 (7533cb8d8c04…), 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.