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 did a backup, that didn’t work either.”

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 3162293789

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

4de5d7c3329780548ce758a29c0d0cf99b95a7173be4c82594587646b90bbb62

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

/69Ii8xogXcorLe/D3N6/WDmJ4QhP1wbdvJuiAk2o33ytIq2ZutHxcNTjie0IGEL2TIa1zlE9UwPXg3ONtmICA==

Merkle root

ab8d4de5853e13d360962f03dfb915842a42e1c5601cdaac4f2b37ad0ba96b78

Merkle path

["4de36bfe595d921f539d08f710057a331d116c2cc66df240e192b7c70cc2c6c0","6fc73c900e2d424c4fb3765a26c693131d28545e5c9340978cf80b58c22c303d","3ec66378e2af9163c936ded839890897116e03c2b67878e28b81f9d8128a6c63","faec0f2b78c0390094ecfa8489b8659f974c14c14487ca3bd99e06aaa95ac70d","55ae3ca4eefd956586b0eeb4dded98ba3051d82ed67a22a49e18a32c56028876","5d7c28d55f222a399248193583941c22e5e79daf38198662e15e567ca3abadec","4168014d6a437f522a9b1f7feaebbc23ec856f2008b81cfb6846a13137282c2a","9fef484b4d73b17c1f08b2eeab5daba431ab99117c0380fe055edd49d76cb3af","6dc8014bd108636c717769d6e59b90f39733a96c06bbc00338f68fa90bd669f0","fd5cf68dcc6d947f1fd9c997548934404163a3ea6d651fe5ee6ef468f0d5d5b3","19ba7344fe144be9866d0e6d7bd1e3a81275fa022940adf56e6334d48a00aae5","c211904b9171b5c272f5c1438c153a9b8b9a82a69b1c78717cb68f70f412c0fa","145b8339a2152137a5c533b9fee0b743027ca75044265351c444699ba891d42f","6b7938d0463f2b633e195d7021170023360849e40ff5e64ffe0633d28e084f81","90ac6c76618b09f3702b50a6410c80828bbcb4ead0d9d85dda294a654717f483"]

Anchored

2026-10-09

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3162293789 · entry 108e9186e8c5677af0ef…

Expected log hash

49c1b9c7cf9c0180248092c94f6cb48d5e59f6c65f471decaa61f120e90874ce 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":"v1791539611981","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:bitwarden/returns/en","quote":"I did a backup, that didn’t work either.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-01-29","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/697bc67259a8de9116d4558b","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 (ab8d4de5853e…), 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.