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.

“Be aware when you press that free trail button.”

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 2969645630

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

165e6c483286075bd657588b29d7d21f4626b21edc92043e0c3d1bf1c91324be

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

7sXJgeQ4FbfYAv2Ddn0vrydVxEro40rEfnteHmrl98mNBrlgiL4rLpzzas5uo6LywFIiVRYc2JyIQPQvyA3RCw==

Merkle root

714fd5c453665fb7238b83bb755c09ceea4f24c6bb04f621046ea8b9d5da1a83

Merkle path

["165f244f7c72fb7d97995f6f9ebb02216939c6ff9b191b48fea088645c035d87","6a2e9ecb058618e9fd62bd4d98eaa127a89387363625a5a47b7b06abd572bf1d","f88d2c07abf2924b9af977f11ec6d2de6e26e193b46089ae36d6b51688b5cc1f","5d6fc3b11a6737e0f90e45bae0d9934f8e571e9c79bf96bd096db409e80bafbc","a3d02886be13dcf2ecca92d26f81cc163ccb07a007ec3c8bcf3432d12d121de5","2de7f1b57c1bd549dce729bc3803813d12c26c3514d191d8bf97abd76da43721","0413cca48a3c5db7a83306d1030388f9f2e021f6dd04141bd9f49c7fcbc339e6","25dbccc8049fd4e56903f9fe424d804dfb23615dea4f5a39851928a0e46fa137","27cfbe37eb6f8f36505b26fb6fd33444a435497c7fd09b374955a079bc349fcc","19b4b125827b0fe0a69a555b4bc54aea7e30669d281ce865fa7eb9be3f8dd8d9","c8bc9157feb1f905e423b75032351a753684f401b7b2f9b901625b2fabab4e50","83d3198b7a23155e6674d3f57aab2f62c301d09ec92227b7550535efc80ebf91","ce1ff7273d6d96bd265bda28caf6843fd2c81dddfd8d1deaf6e8068db252318b","a74e96815829544928f52d566d2e0783f4233c64b908a508f65038e2ffa1590b","0657d6cbf3a92507a9a9b11146527ccd4ea9969d68d2d85c40e1ac60d2ab4392"]

Anchored

2026-09-27

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2969645630 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ac05f…

Expected log hash

9c269d3e82dba16de30aab3330968f6013b6b7908bdb2f7b3ce0083771a2fe3e 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":"v1790397996853","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:acrobat/returns/en","quote":"Be aware when you press that free trail button.","rating":3,"review_date":"2026-07-20","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.reader","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 (714fd5c45366…), 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.