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 think it is not necessary to have an expensive license for this charge of work”

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 2685152720

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

281040943f1518615fb2c0e2a68dcc631d21f2874156ed6548d6d537009fbd8a

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

hmzJz0HuKP7IFkBh6xTf3FwfuZ1yhRykOxwzgHNVoiwJWRhykqdXCxKj0WuPSi2lg2Uu28VwmZ/SwvZwGpyaDA==

Merkle root

96fbff9333062c6f240ebc674c358d11c91e32417964c7b74e7a085ad09b3148

Merkle path

["2811fc8f7ad8125bad3b814054a1390808bb8978042fe9759bef04d72c449b4b","353c5e377fba1bfb5c50734b6b5694b775a16389a1c6f777b532003b73b89b05","abca1f20b51b72f018ea671f2d760cd74234c02ff237afa6ae1b59ed855fbfc3","dc03838849ca742c9ea9991897834f71bfd2638fc0a6542d902038d73e1bc462","58a025d184444d3e04cc56fe062ace3a8e9f16f34e199bbc1315c1835442b61d","4f799565595bfd382642bf474680d583caa320fb897826e9ad8c6b16b73cdab2","f63f74f245c7be3b16b4a7ef64be3a95bbc52dfd46cd39198234ea77ea22b13d","9bb31bb724761d64fbfbe766ead94df49ac80edcfebb294e54c5de04a1067a37","c38023aa883d5540b1e02f27ade975250353f45afc58b96bcdd7103373682715","14dd5e49ff008ff5518f3929e0ee5aa386452eda36c8b7fb6912fa9a0b016172","da58e7752759c1d46c2c9e52fee2463c1bdacda10394433a2668577c871fdc67","7831e43d966ad98bcbcc2f942aaf8b6b89b57118e9c855f79b8043fd6923d11d","79a4550b200fde9b3a943415990b5226f73c8c365540528c8ac5ff0f8d838204","392c4ff19a61c37ccb09c095c4cdb0c4164ec867c437a8e3033cfe3fe2edd46f","60ceee9d6856471604c29353be774f78386c382c47f03b784bbb0ee7fd843f1c"]

Anchored

2026-09-02

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2685152720 · entry 108e9186e8c5677adce2…

Expected log hash

b48044e152c7f9f6bdada08baa42518b66cab68608ac945b90bbbe4a8f1ed0a5 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":"v1788347082424","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:ilovepdf","quote":"I think it is not necessary to have an expensive license for this charge of work","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-08-30","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a9394f286f446340df8ca5a","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 (96fbff933306…), 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.