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.

“if I can't get another authenticator to work then I will have to cancel my subscription and use a different company”
Google Play · 1/5 · 2026-02-01

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): 7ae66040a0ea457b490cde9a9789d54ef1914b1284bde1758ae97282d537b3fa
Signature (Ed25519, base64): kYA1cx6KPe4V7QFS9otMvJ2hYHRocNNt0dWMxPfOTtYrUQndoVRffhpqRNOFLjST1ohxQ1ObCdWo7MycUzUdAA==
Merkle root: 97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d
Merkle path: ["7ae568f065c141dbf1f8138153fcc7c7bf674eb264e2925fcf87fe5fefc37c46","62f48373ba2b1df5cdc2e527020892ed958a3c2f95bd6fbd39ed338a223a2cbf","67e16df41d30e75d58c5d2bc0b89bc7b827e5e6b1aa9075ee2324588f77950a0","aaabe10c4894cdd7aeb9632babbd3c325371456d2a298d8d0b71201d612844dc","a57161cf23ba29e6804e685f670508f0d4a047a0f444c59a1d14e7514e3ee2ec","130bdc6629d5a9d377fdcc37a80d8cdea87a442adec3efc88c46e9c070611bf5","f3a6c1cacf58ecf0dc1163cc1124d73d45645bf915720df70371f89ea5c22d76","59af406feb985ad19a5365703cb69c0d2701cd86ae2e818b229e750e1d558117","f6eb18f3c0909d2d5df51bf93f40eaf8d3cfb3b09a8a01702334cd471cd70a2d","2d8ecb41f8400c70f915406462ee47efc269e681ddb12759aa75be7bb6a1c1b3","4a7da3ae635c518c772181747583fe91b52dc970a195f2fea0b029288d95f308","ed5206c0018c25fc911a5b83d48a4b07edf1ca07ade25d7e56162349167c269c","6772a6b2cfb742f4baa103e424787f6ab6a8cbdfc294db886f1451f7c9752077","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:xero/returns/en","quote":"if I can't get another authenticator to work then I will have to cancel my subscription and use a different company","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-02-01","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xero.authenticator","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.