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.

“In my case, I had a severance payment that needed to be taxed.”
Google Play · 1/5 · 2026-08-14

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 3273342496

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): 24d179f679f5efad785440364c96f73ba87b3948ba92709232a71fe7b7fad9bb
Signature (Ed25519, base64): Qo/yIQN9eTPYvz2ys2p1WPmVSXMwWtqSQTQNkOoi33Y1S7B0IDX9kfdJciAvIeWSrqriqgyF+RNQGYKYf8GxBw==
Merkle root: a6a2b4c9d7d1eafa4a3ba3595aa08f11c105165de84940ffc059f837c445104f
Merkle path: ["24c8ffb9bd506ea15df05a2a566201d6f7d7cacfffee957fe5c52ddffb447f09","1631da2cb20865025208c38e184f7e06cb2a662b3152d1760c6584c3873647be","6c45ca531f9ac5a63e283b10d1027c5cd8c908eddeb81ee88b22ce7ea0f9cbaf","0e88b4a5e3846918d35242f5bf38f57191431e7298e356503c0f7c57465157c8","07eb68ed3d9e6a451d862a8ec24a4aa61fd3787f8b33170da2724589d7b1855c","a7501d2eb2eab6643e37199215e2db0d69f2f14f0e379f8d02e4b76bf73d18fa","946b89ddc7213eab400714388a73a4d9a509c6583db8617b283b9f00086a9fd9","9acf5d64c1a9dd5c7f2cb0441ff982c3258c13cdcdd81ded47668e564cffaf0b","a43b47d2b94ac745e03305f25c2a0ff1e68158476852a2c45c6987b1ca49ba47","a6ece7c62bd8d9810b746a22e4ffc172b2bd7b4d4e53043178ac8a1fba5983df","fca4148b7d63d2155bd4f2c250f595d4390b55f1371317ad1717a801e3baccf1","8ceb1cbfd39c6c4db73ef7ebf9abc517c7ad214544f8291eb9ba9ebb0a70e4ff","95302ff16156d5e277933eeb7a8aae0bcc9cd9ecc1e7491c1aab462ce098abfe","d9b9cce27629bc902030340ceda068fb90d53ddab20309d3b3d8bb3949c170f2"]
Anchored: 2026-10-16
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 3273342496 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a66d7…
Expected log hash: 8a8ea4260f3039926c3342603d4fca7ca9e5c627d841ac1c7142e303a049d0c7 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":"v1792122420855","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:taxfix","quote":"In my case, I had a severance payment that needed to be taxed.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-08-14","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.taxfix","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 (a6a2b4c9d7d1…), 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.