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.

“You can't delete things while looking at them.”
Google Play · 3/5 · 2026-08-06

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 2514297706

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): 1434fe597d2c814e742929e47add99ffbed690eb76e1fb16bb262875ad48fbb4
Signature (Ed25519, base64): 0NqFZc+uJxVCNNn40kaQF9oZrym4JH/mpRwTNBsDUYhaWKE6hxfahv4T3edQ0l07pWv2Ie8UFhYGCbgyA+fUCw==
Merkle root: 1dd7fec10002d9304505761bfad9c0f048c94d1d6a0775b6fc4291f712d4106b
Merkle path: ["1434885a0422fb8eed612f2087897d47cb087d3fe1e5d6cae0edc5db38ba8bcc","7e9ad0dea806a2592a8981d997a0c00cafa84edd2f9ea08f457f47446e05e757","56161bb6568bd0ffb72a5a0be662836b6e465bab67bdc79334b767d949301a13","07ab888a5fbded484ccc3d314aa297498096877c4b9b750dc3eb2dfa0df2a7d6","acc4bd19500cdf109f5ee5803f6ec9c7cf9536f1c53b0a3fba6b67c697dd75b7","2e0f4c9fed841beeed3017fec7a59642dd1cb6422a1209b4e5605684bec32a1f","982bb94fdfe178726c9479a2a84e05dfa79726c74731c0dd944a14882ee15873","aeac6174b8b265aeff5fba3fd8efcf381aba30c4ef7450223a5a7c8c38766af6","788f375c2e98e4b49a544fe37ac932497db2a50b1736605f717105771791b40e","dd35998596df1b16b806a0c5368afb7d60b3b4a7960e4bac24e4c2662b28556b","e3127d0f0f9aadc917df470929d0e3b2a02baff613085a9b17a814cdcf142119","657ad7dbba37e12f66f02f90e203db2675dc951b7bcda79c809b6eaab0170eef","1e0f2b6cff090cfdd5d25ead7f46fcfc2672d59cdc86bdf2b9755ea459d71ff0","96733967bd879589a2091176049a40f13c26bf93f656924a17f15f3f405bad21","54bbc2d7930ffae8e416e662d825fe408002ca5c9c581c2388ff0eb5a37134ae"]
Anchored: 2026-08-19
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 2514297706 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ab801…
Expected log hash: 861cb9c1424d2f408888a591a8305206c340f8249f4a4581b32f940ce8815405 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":"v1787126020727","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:acrobat/ordering/en","quote":"You can't delete things while looking at them.","rating":3,"review_date":"2026-08-06","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.reader","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 (1dd7fec10002…), 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.