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.

“Don't you ever use this company.”

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 2969645630

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

2b98ce244ba3083a93735e04a6a0a8ef5482719fa57d4c2989dc8e483118c6d8

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

eckNtDMjb5Z0xJMamYWfuM90GWvVlwAblTW5RG3h8xtjh5paH1uFCaRSZsNjn3G66VFdv91lYmRiz2sK2buLBg==

Merkle root

714fd5c453665fb7238b83bb755c09ceea4f24c6bb04f621046ea8b9d5da1a83

Merkle path

["2b99fce4db486046bc4b117e70b9faacff0215bab4ee8739f38477540c4b7f87","98c6dfc7032be0f7ef165196bd1e36442e3f3f5f49922f8892ef5a7b61fdb604","b51cee747a1d4b55aacba48a7fb8d44e89f532b52c809e35471120cd33766bdf","d5d2b864dfee6959c795dd83a65876ebe43927d189a3d8f7027c9514be935180","cc768296d7042d0e8d30634c4949294bc109124a5b753d87cb5b5059c6c2359f","5e9c2527f88b705c1455cc8db6a686d9956fa0c92a2bba1158ed3ace1917f7a8","809aaafece6cf8049f2c9fbcfb311b31a5daac3f4723ef3733a2aeeb7f7127b4","c5e9053a89a46a374e9b8b37788d56e8c98a54905edffb0581b984290b4a3943","06af23a7860664b93762b6fc119dc1f85c9aeb275d552dd0f1a4aab4896c828d","48e456296cb43f9a4b4df6f935fd822e0ae88273e578b9f940e6e6370735d3fa","c53e2a1f2c26cd59778b063576b65d991dea8ac5d436e6bd4e30c2426e89e14a","ed38531d5a3f3ebc270e0492a8d6a4cc4d2035032431b503cf55aa15e82c3f8f","845fdb47367ecc34e59993e716bac94f091281e8b7d978616b0716239d2f69bc","a74e96815829544928f52d566d2e0783f4233c64b908a508f65038e2ffa1590b","0657d6cbf3a92507a9a9b11146527ccd4ea9969d68d2d85c40e1ac60d2ab4392"]

Anchored

2026-09-27

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2969645630 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ac05f…

Expected log hash

9c269d3e82dba16de30aab3330968f6013b6b7908bdb2f7b3ce0083771a2fe3e 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":"v1790397996853","kind":"published-quote","locale":"de","page":"brand:stripe","quote":"Don't you ever use this company.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-08-29","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a923377f0c63a85a711042e","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 (714fd5c45366…), 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.