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.

“Its simplicity is now anything but simple.”

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 2789279696

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

280650efd055c061d7a010cd7ca602ac0bb5ee16f671d8a6aa6a9b741214c18f

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

huwDO48A8WZSk7zLeGtk19FE31A8jLXlY4UIEvKGWkLMKAJG2iyPK+Yh58ZyKkAFWb9jepS83ak7tx44PsuMBg==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["2806820c38680929309199eeefac4147b080c27691a11d1f94402361ca87a18c","3c5450977078402c035f86b1e834714a445ff4957b0564db340bdd4836b29ace","bd4282d1ea55861f17ee81ada4a528ba23d7616f77bb519f4832ec70b1a7fc93","5fea461d0f0e1b0b7388781a15d140234c62d487b622d9569d06b29f0c88c1b5","a791c02d01349b58383366c183b4669b5f016f63c77214fd6874110e6f5d8bc0","a05b9e5f8b8a1b669cc94002b1a5f3a81581af8d9a5a2fe59a9f6539c1bd494d","044674aae680a2e39219eca6fe1253af2a325346d14d4f04895545de30ab0d0e","c7877fab82169145c734fd9d306106e34e9db82d144e8c5c74ba6df72e5e11ff","f3a076fc4e01b7a1eccb0b913b3d8f8ae9e83f35a0f1fbff852829814387da43","27d9e811fc63b66a67dbc803086a3c9617cdbe1306bcd32543043e93fbddee44","5553ed2457f1c23af88ee778f913c101570661a707416f00741f020e76998f21","c3f635ba717eeeb5ba2ef9ddb3d4150c23b49c53fc05a76fef371e9ad8330b6f","b2cde2091952330dc6d7773f9467df58d2e8463851174cad44d4f743c8f8617f","a9559f2ca8536f2c18bf059f3f0099d62235a93ac35dc17b09967d392b72be7f","01242865574478f13dcf9d888236d7a907264abdb87f360db7db06de0945075a"]

Anchored

2026-09-11

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2789279696 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a3885…

Expected log hash

05c7009ecf7ce5cf315c252c2a1dd135e64989a02cacdaaa3c5a87412a2e921c 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":"v1789017464005","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:wave/quality/en","quote":"Its simplicity is now anything but simple.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-07-21","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a5fcb897fbeeed4926c2411","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 (97eb1062a862…), 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.