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 team is ultra-responsive in answering our questions, including those about tax returns.”
Apple App Store · 5/5 · 2026-05-22

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 3241341297

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): 0bbbdc78c538557586d00a7003d583d2fab593490ac72851eb50ab305301c749
Signature (Ed25519, base64): NoQyIWcquaGDdt2ygMkDRgwT00TIZTrJ40qSYp0//pqC1yKxsRyR5fOQX5Q22spa9eRBIalwGuA4CyWTG4UZAA==
Merkle root: 4900b1080bdcd3b4c9234f01647614e7004e0a1ae01ead44968e31abeab33265
Merkle path: ["0bc2c005616f15e230a9ac7009b2ab20fa1bdb6d073a15afe714ef065222ed34","8218316a95a5fa445fe6d2fbbdceab997dd6153283ea173e6620453f92688922","49d668e49bd9373922ef1dda0d906bc3c71b5746c96e3a556dba0eaa818281a2","f173d3e49d8626f78046761a51ac1dda48f56ec3d453c6990094c5702b311d67","cae2dbfa2a474b783c27ac905f83fe3761020114d22b6eff3814e722c0f3aff7","761bc7186e1b11e31111bf17792b9f3d1a419982646d10d823ae275782672def","2d9349853d0d08d9d0c280115f8057fed9a57f70185847b4247ee99c70cb36f3","c02c3a938424c729b156b7a6a6f5c6c729676e505a9412e02ef52bb170e57af7","177d1788c5a19f7508d0809e4aabf99a6284cbe0f37cf7d88d0aea786906d66b","0082cae84f47e1ba46cbf246c30f2397f57017a07f5e1e677bdadf19556ebda5","5eea0c065cc9023d7325f7537d5b56f514ab1dc88622b30c5c8dec5113ed99f8","4f4d0831440aadf9cdde8508ea8672cceb008a30da8e04261a55c46ea8a8ea6b","acc667d852c71a0e84a086ab20f7bbad3d8ae083a1e44cd20501ad641f662bdf","0a4842003c61f69c5923b6aafd56426e7fe934e483f7d15b620c07fa61f89152"]
Anchored: 2026-10-13
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 3241341297 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a0e53…
Expected log hash: 39342fbb95f8cce5be4111719e5450984494edcdff99b8bd9a5c0d2303b67943 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":"v1791866192176","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:findependent","quote":"The team is ultra-responsive in answering our questions, including those about tax returns.","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-05-22","source":"Apple App Store","source_url":"https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/id1510962836?see-all=reviews","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 (4900b1080bdc…), 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.