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 ball was not dropped”

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 2776103867

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

1125eb8a29352164d1070b19a8aff46a89870acb41f236ff2a4844ac444de76f

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

n6pins/Ytga7kjL+Wvhqx54FiIHcv6N2sDZNZm5c8gF6OenmVw6M4tTg4NvbIvXdP2yzbyiuuEkOpLccIs6gAg==

Merkle root

4dc0bd79ba3e9442f7f1feb21f347e2f6fdbc72e99098aa5164776a6202654a8

Merkle path

["112108cbd29bff344aaf92e631f219fc8a7ec4ac4848eb7c6cf4fc924b974e01","32db5c7149656034e8a61d6ac5fc17c2442fd770d16bd00537c95cf4fc5523ce","ebb33e54782f900d08a9d7df2d1c081bb94390591bf61efb6aadc12181103807","f6510db6b0ab237962e451856ae8af3d4ba1afbce58b753e5f9ee21e3ab9291f","ac7930ce02a01168c4b650f2821068e638a38b9d9535e04ca7efb0fb6282a038","45d7ead92a0172869d24c86efcb1c9d9dde761ae80ca35e6037265fe1c475b5f","18e7b3be1e8143ba6a1d93d682125e90210c3f8ebc036b3e2c770d427f713126","c3fc246b5057fb7ccc70ee925fbcd57c88c4ac7e55ed2cc492304991dcdf03ca","24a28b2c88a2e9d26a1c7af9469557c7553b41c165b2c0561c9c70f93a22afa2","7f2aadf9f56bb611e8bad5cb3e1ac4a862cbbe13187dfbbe35172e0dedf19a1b","ba894b4be4882cdd4ee89df93fc269c4b5650c2f893ba96b1cfb28c1d9866900","601d3d5f4fba7ccb8e25e8db9adc4fc1a6094821bec2364894f7bf4c640df5de","b64868d5884e6ca103d8fa1886b59a755a471482d82618eec868304914b8e334","72f96e42060ae616ed33b8fd6ac687c1899623eaa8a351026bf33e2e7a041d34","e60c2274998b06992577796b6abe86bec144203fe960878f7951a3ae12c9e532"]

Anchored

2026-09-10

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2776103867 · entry 108e9186e8c5677acd4f…

Expected log hash

2498329b7eaf275d309293dfbac35d05dfb8a55c65956add8448561c05945f28 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":"v1788848066028","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:nordpass/returns/en","quote":"the ball was not dropped","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-03-13","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/69b4160736e5c5438556b452","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 (4dc0bd79ba3e…), 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.