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.

“I had to have its battery replaced immediately”

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 3162767972

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

26ecbd16cf569bf70c53c7ee7b8f9795dd9899cb5f41837d2b9d17f752ff04aa

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

GH9MRaGBHME5kwPIT0NXslmdx3N28L8hmu4AxmrN/GGKaoiIeHQojjobg5WpwbIvKmLmYJ2PpuPbPWsQhc7lCg==

Merkle root

ea9653d48be6468e8b38c47d968f49528ccd17e229f6df41b5fdcfc232720ce1

Merkle path

["26e6ed16e28e7c5edfb4131bf10c1bf9272fc2b7575d4e21709629abd47c20c9","8019fe82e1ab1970fe53a714e668fb22dad93d7698047c94f442b70009155f62","2da321e502d623d0ffae37aeb1dd52543f62b4a45b3b881009f08d7bee6e64d9","b8b1b8d1d51a933ace92ffe4a460b6c9576b644f718dd7a0d7216d186b177e99","7631e4ae7cdfb9fecc679ab027ee1d5c12f5543234290f09f5364108e2a2ef20","c262468bd27db5b1fe52cc0ebe51695245fa590d583af753255de59d31e06cb3","377597935ed3b8fcfeb341aa39365a22a0191d4f972233ff08814d363256536d","169540577495168a2d2ec0af752e90d155f120a3014cd2fd497cd9c862a87a4a","1df596a8a36159853e7a3eaa96636e6853af99b85fbe051995041973340fd2aa","ee08ff90977cbc7594f2e8a55ab66f368264e30d00451163fcbbd7926be0f614","b3d24f1d485eb31f67983e8448b9007b3580341c636d7fc910a97ab8873d9e5d","9253fa4f5bb69c032cde6a50eb05a9214fda55ede5998b0ed751c72bcace6cf3","6cd34e3dfbc2bb436f1bb9314162b2979f7ca90ac38686f80fc39acf8dc29914","ce40f5d4a6c2a1f06b7e5ce375094f8c75556b02f37cd3d94ca98fa0a38a1e5e","142248530d485121153c09b780e08c6af592fdb4c333042d3cdd9e4160c6db55"]

Anchored

2026-10-09

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3162767972 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a40b3…

Expected log hash

ea8f60b663262eef5ec0ce5a9fbc0ace913092ea47c37bdc70ac392578ea0c35 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":"v1791541525227","kind":"published-quote","locale":"de","page":"brand:swatch","quote":"I had to have its battery replaced immediately","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-09-17","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6aac0bc223868c829929577b","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 (ea9653d48be6…), 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.