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.

“Playlist management has become really unintuitive.”

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 3178600936

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

23bcc280cdddbde740eec5e3875b34b6ae98ea5966268855e99bcb03bdbce199

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

1vn0pIl7S8uHP4+QN8E4sugO4Jw4n1DCbFylqHfxbv2ld2zEJdnjos2u+Fd8Q1bJmR+BjZwt8v+T8aVJcFVXCA==

Merkle root

eee462924587f8024361bc8d60043805cf5210f8bd2ef7667df06d093552f9e6

Merkle path

["23bc4a36a4bfda5bc165448b280e06518de6dc57c9b713ada0bd0a48e02b7d97","eadbec298e79c42b31ff8f6d5def8d2c87b665d64e1c17ec0c4836c049cfa3aa","acc68b267dcd597c145aea0da53247eaefdcf19fd22c5ebd6f5a3caecd0bac03","d168b2c0ba9ea2c7e3169f18b5cb6e668a773ff27ab0c4c72ae32cf7842547cc","169fe251016c6f68c590adaa6ffbe2237e7fbe6cbc0eaf7046bc3bf9f5bd920e","596f3fd5dce20d1677fdfa3fb3c6a880fb810e52e28d260ff1b54aa8e74a5290","6db4873ba7e12642006788f6064075ea3d7c611702d41cb7c2c67f72a0646caa","07b6d62eca37b74c0224cb602d3e7e1de7ae198ca6b6bce7586f647998f73ca9","5aaa93b66017cf2990d9f3faea3f27878c58ad9fd4d6fddbf667cc7dba92ee15","c32baae29025ebd8bbebd4d2913e8b15582d3ac308e6bc08000959705d0984a8","6c1510ff4366f01d9f3cf2782dde2248f86be32b568472e8b059185422448170","5a28204f9372278679ccf6b3ebe28cb3da342cbf292d2015dc590fde73763288","2671ebca141255a0c11a3bc51354d8cd008634f7e59a58a3f3f9dc756141bb9c","a445a39a48770a8fbc5d87a405ed660d401fa810eac6fbd1d284a96f8c7d5503","452f4fcbca19997a15e6a6869c50e026ff02cb90a6ef21da106ee0457e55941a"]

Anchored

2026-10-10

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3178600936 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a6a91…

Expected log hash

f3dccf508afcb5e89d56dabc8c5aead85de215b1b896d057d463ea1c1bdb13a3 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":"v1791606586319","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:spotify","quote":"Playlist management has become really unintuitive.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-09-20","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music","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 (eee462924587…), 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.