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.

“Forcing users into a paid tier to resolve a lockout caused by their own aggressive deletion policy is a toxic user experience.”
Apple App Store · 1/5 · 2026-06-11

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): 59f87493cbc8e441f96c3f0b83b782f75a145a991fd0f3ec8238e68c8a3597c2
Signature (Ed25519, base64): S72cjawYvXvrGFur6vcZgQIKO+QBidenaft1u1u/dLB5/H7z2viNMaSzRpP3xvK0o0EuGoF03Gh92LOOYr4dDw==
Merkle root: 97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d
Merkle path: ["59f674ad6c7bc7b1ff8cca432462e6d0179eb01fd6b06afc6188bcad16a36b89","c02344d27827798f94f537098f3cfcec94c45c0fad181c54434887c1fb161a5b","7260d3bf61ed82c5b95a2a799fd47c92e288ce44b6da09d0e5c88ebd11f5ed19","338877c5c20745b2a8c920cfea41d938229c74e29b834b1f77fc98483016d2da","808a575dcc38c4ed4eec13f59247ab14c513748515e12731d90bf0030c91c2fe","dacd63c0493f873e24ad185951e06b8bf3a0a6888061d90987f2f8e3d0796eb8","fd9a0136637f0d20ad7db9177a1a30cbb1cadfa4749c43851d92491a16be7e8f","4146b76826cab9477ef95816e45a31be4e14edd2ea2679a44b22e3ee0c88237e","b9d5576fd90d9731fa342a264406c7d714d6675b520c654ceaf3cada66632777","2aa1fb48e8af708f982ab66ac1e5924a03465c1beb00d4fcf5136b06cfb5cb28","cfd5277386e631c114cbc654fd0b93b8cc704b4a485df6a59db98989a72263c7","36283db7bcf119c11be277705ea4507f983056a8ea68a309c763a3cc8b414991","66d13e8b5300f6cf7ae49f9f9692863758845bb98773f7a2bbb28032eed5ad1c","90e3c3ed08ff9f4dee6683cf95bfff311f4715cac07e97ca75ea5b9bcf13efe4","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:tuta/returns/en","quote":"Forcing users into a paid tier to resolve a lockout caused by their own aggressive deletion policy is a toxic user experience.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-06-11","source":"Apple App Store","source_url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id922429609?see-all=reviews","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 (97eb1062a862…), 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.