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.

“Initial setup is painful to the point that I was willing to give up.”
Google Play · 2/5 · 2025-10-08

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 2907673729

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): 5249f388183bcd04f5d7a81c5fae7af294b14137e75fa9671736c4455c63f0e1
Signature (Ed25519, base64): 1bipyvhPToJ02jHwc/2fSqyfaPXwUOjkjJNJGMNdBUKnRhHo6erqpLNrUIkBiiGeIw/pU0gkcGE6fxFMQuXlDw==
Merkle root: b9a08f9d6d76dd148110a496219c42cf3205c6f982800d84d5c85d77e9461e02
Merkle path: ["52497bc2a7d32f6cc4aba362d1ea4c52b32bd32f25b7a8d34bc6e6b292010f9a","950e1979128f2a431a7cb31c586733f71db89e4a9b7918c8e88ac5be219db5cd","46ebd6aa5550a8baf263c57e36bb5d21a450c8a3c15f3c7853ceea3f35c3fb06","39b947dcf2bc324dd8a188bcc632545d43e15105638038bb225438f71011976a","1b1931e6370ea7606e881d8e1415a7121c9a1f8e807690205f646bcf7c81f4e2","dddc11750f48b3acf94dc54197715c5083e4815c61ff7b5df10586584f2b2c12","b1678a7f6fd4fd2277c9034e6a8362a3b1be9c9640dfe2228eca43a56ee87159","b18222fca78fb1a17f21a12a3b6806089bda6828bfe838f7f14de86f610ac0a8","56d3b71b66daac8979d84e703d9948ad8290630a713dd39c268535bdfeb824f6","ad0aae11f52bbbb06ea51de50925d251a694c98865b17a3619de68e30bfbd477","87d389c83fd89e992a96d0b9792dec0eff9c6544ae6310a697648d3aba29323d","0197d988959ac12f7d8946ff2581c88b7ba9a4305193828cca53fbbb9832a064","bcc0d977b8ab2060a87584efe5d0f5545e840726716d3f02c248db108122259f","6c299608515c69a03540be35865f96ca4932f3e0403f8f39fb0e1c2e2aedffb4","43a562d6822dab12c673c1efa0a3171d1ef69b949f676fb01847e1e5b56274de"]
Anchored: 2026-09-22
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 2907673729 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a06ea…
Expected log hash: bf9a74000249ba6e66b1e29aae9d8cb95c3400dc118569a80e5c0949f3e8ac62 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":"v1789969984102","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:v-zug/ordering/en","quote":"Initial setup is painful to the point that I was willing to give up.","rating":2,"review_date":"2025-10-08","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vzug.home","v":1}

Verify in the public log

Open the Rekor entry (pre-filled with this proof's log index).
In the entry, compare spec.data.hash.value with the "Expected log hash" above: it is the SHA-256 of the Merkle root string (b9a08f9d6d76…), which ties this proof's root to the log entry.
Decode spec.signature.publicKey.content from base64: it must equal Citatio's published key at /.well-known/citatio-signing.json.
The entry's integratedTime is the independent timestamp: the root, and with it this quote, existed no later than that moment.
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.