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 3668793196

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): 0a505f241940818663d3ec451d2b21c46a52495cb34382fe17c0469bc1e6c763
Signature (Ed25519, base64): 2gZ+XSazNCFCLXB6eTDU7lfIJnCZALsR0FtQELVwMIVsKn8fuE7WAU4PVsIZ+hxBzaXBW0l9IVdRR7LbGxhbAQ==
Merkle root: 8552de27836d9c1d73f2670cf2bc11df6459e7443d47ace4674278484e3a6d8e
Merkle path: ["0a40c878ef22d1bd41712265a14dfb9fdc99725465917a591f36f44f8f0a0a6d","5b058c06b44523b610881b97cd16584db652cfa214c0e0e99631436480ca17e9","6bf4db720e491676e8fc321f357822816b78efa76fe544e0ed75570bed6a7a9f","55ba3bad03397d4a23bbfa5433d8fbb64922085fcbd0113ddbf85036ba04294e","9d5c635588eed41f16bb68b15d1920392651e164d0e65a0a534c37fc7566d2d0","0abf2b6a60d80c8c629a776831e8d320e11e96dc88c222abe5120664de4391eb","f93b7580d4e6f99979dd7d272c4edeac1ee072abac7a09f0df4a608c6ac34f4f","08e386a1d01aa7ee75072458951eec3867a6dec5f1e237bae25a9f499b1fdc6f","7d19419cf020f47aad850543e421ade27e969470df6ac13e69dbbdbbfe744697","7835ca71fdfea746279b7644da599f2720670e215fe623045002700f11ed5642","4f17a7ed38c98f7a470320811cda3089cdb974f325cd6f8590ff2ad504addacf","521a2de35e4b98beb07bc39254cf192902ab2b5298a659e0538f167d5630eb48","06f625e80da47a14c2d3e7027b88f7f89c63e459e05ddda58b98e60b36bc2518"]
Anchored: 2026-11-03
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 3668793196 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a8c91…
Expected log hash: f099839a063ebfd0b66050d615b9645cca5be77075ecec449f1aa0148fdcbfea 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":"v1793706932685","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","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 (8552de27836d…), 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.