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 return process proved very difficult due to being time-consuming with long processing times.”
Trusted Shops · 2/5 · 2026-07-29

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 2543154575

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): 0d0bc6c65f7f48fcd4575a9971a7807b5033151133ebcf84e03dd535779ecca0
Signature (Ed25519, base64): HoU6gzWXXXIuMvNrxTeTbrbr/Xj6eFQhh4rHi1w5hpzP7pifQK2y47jT90o4YuCVk4vWpi8Y7ZaAXY47HRY8AA==
Merkle root: 9ca8f1c1ad15a78206ceaec922c537c0b0ac598e12c9c25877f5e0e19de38c6e
Merkle path: ["0d0b18a16677b76ad1bb03e4ad05152793884418cf44cb0785af38458216f311","d760c2ddc9d85ed6dc78ef533ed5e387404d1dcead5cce32402489f019cce45f","7be3a22bafdefc5258e1a585ac362cc50f606be2ef83a8a22cb55d4b2c378730","a2bfc404cd3ba681c1c813ce9708f4bfb22fc0b741a351519d9856d1c87990ed","e3328765440722e8e2ab29a2eed34eba298f256d3ca75f1e4d70f7045765e65f","20f97dfa58cd2a2f9fabc75b88dd152edd8970067a6076461423c4446074186f","bc64aeaeab999a58edbbf6159da298d1d2c9a69ed6d01b496b2593cb53bd2099","240304cd858694d37c34fd31278f3613d20a6d2658b718f0f7fdea9945d34043","480b93f35577305c1a22012ee909ad99ff7c737d9e8a600d4b26995cf14ebe6d","3a50c49a457c5485fb1a86efa1dc2a6e317300886196cdeab1709f7f2e01069e","11b69e5ff649b789c448f84a14cd3ee371f09587c7736c168ddde640fe74ece7","041f9c16598b3da12cb223fe41597ccb0f25efb5fe011f3cb0a58262fd9f7e82","92bd38359a2f7e9a0cfb63e15fa5bc91828bc74a6fd1daabc0f50bab390b730a","78e3a01c18db7a3aa85fa160432e1aa22e4b131e9c27c5e2e4566764a2ee13b9","deb69ba818cac6d60ad262ee5febe93ecfd14e4c978778af299f82ef8a69b934"]
Anchored: 2026-08-21
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 2543154575 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a0eab…
Expected log hash: 0099eed9d12aa99aaa44ed875b87ffaf90c46527b61dfd92cdd4db2c148aef65 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":"v1787284115102","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:cewe/returns/en","quote":"The return process proved very difficult due to being time-consuming with long processing times.","rating":2,"review_date":"2026-07-29","source":"Trusted Shops","source_url":"https://www.trustedshops.de/bewertung/info_XE3D21EA81A56276ACEED1C9AFB85F941.html","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 (9ca8f1c1ad15…), 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.