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 don’t start your design from scratch”

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 2657398434

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

14d253f5f8fcd023689c038871a15cbbd1cf68d0c9b2a1b5e78344c52518b8b0

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

cBBCEXSgsxjuWeP759va33ORKXGeXjfyhNbrqnieWihHThkt9P58GxLke4HDxBBOnBzqXx6jpMzGd8Y1i3ahCg==

Merkle root

acdf1cdd0bdd2a199677e85dbc5991dc48c1e518ed6d2c5233af5991b4186e6d

Merkle path

["14d2aa655cb9ac27d07a83b86a1ff06f2fe111bcd25da6da1177ba1b51c96abf","df17fbc5e4df16ae72a08beb568b5c14f6f3e7716dc1f95ea4d34e99a5a343ad","0882e68a670d188377308a2a7191f90df134de312351b2aefc8018004aa2932f","cc747c264d2a33c1ec082c7f5bb96aa383b7ff69ca3ea9c98e94b316596a4e2d","e73e2af1417b591ddb4cb28d234f313fda47b80c392414183600b5e95bb2badb","a9fd4d8d9e2b2a09bc007d92f2b9be2ae9dc460f419800f189e58c1d4244c810","e94e52e714775c77c82260377152896bbf8f758e200f87c2d43b301fe5a4b200","063d0f8be7951744c58768ed61f59e709d86490d02449a8f9ea578ce009220cd","42728d042e269e573452807f985470bf3c0de7bf65691742552269d596e4af59","0ebcc78d07be0263e36c98ad6e87d11639cdf889731f222fc04a1023c878ba57","3554381ef325c11a65e28a6fee6c643b4b4b2a56a591e341afd0295f9f2664ef","e6d320b1a1c165cb3f510accf419016e8f913615cccc12cf3280df561ab3fc0b","5be1ed0db4a168c968a9338cf99a259771d41cd5263b972d09b2723267155cfc","f88b7eb537a26a67b92d1223a237ed8f66b05121bed134a4e98a9efb344eda0f","abbe7f57eef4397ffabc67ae858dc9e10b74d761241655f8d4d6e91a3ed19782"]

Anchored

2026-08-31

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2657398434 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a2042…

Expected log hash

654fbf62fc5d4d889ecdda697456043b4d29831eb78c01e70ea2a4db22de7769 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":"v1788145268703","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:canva/ordering/en","quote":"You don’t start your design from scratch","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-08-12","source":"Apple App Store","source_url":"https://apps.apple.com/za/app/id897446215?see-all=reviews","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 (acdf1cdd0bdd…), 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.