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.

“It is clunky, overengineered, overwhelmed with useless menus”

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 2514967984

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

8cd3c9d2e98fc36bf370f6821ea58b4fe5c647fdcf48e8e7ba1001f13b973a37

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

0uOb4qiR8JycI0AcjSqOz7zXiDjVD4a+rFmgU4IF1dBSnJgt5iO+fyjPZ6cPeeRb/+E/UEnskJ/nfOt7FR71AQ==

Merkle root

9ddf6b9053b6e5e7a2f15ee7f3bfc8dfb72c48a1917ae5b7e553033e3ded6523

Merkle path

["8cd905ce0717f7208704d350b1b764ab27e06d43c2a976deaabafff6f5bafe4e","68f71b5985906287b64be783257e6e6d14ca383e8c57928b803bb69f39f7fe2a","27cac0f750e8aa00b97596ca05f8d76a827509297ff9fd76f0ce61421ee1a69b","22581767438a8c5e3642a8cb9cfdf71aa22a01bb7c7950b83745ca842c4985e8","23153a9676325436468c5eea9d4ad2e2f3ddd76d21ea1a7c08d534070944f680","65750b67dbf69f922c15fc2c24c60ea5ebb4bdae6ca290f243d40519accf96bc","91c7026284f936210aa2237bd650aa10d685ee9ed3a5fc743765592a10d94d7d","b521cd14755a9153643ad93e851e19e5db1fbd846bfa0ecd57c21c564e381b1b","f0ecb2ddef19647c05608648d754c213ba40159e10a2f4b38d8227293e46f2e5","c1f01d6f637f835dda5cf190d1b3722fc049950e7915130b349e2db5ef4183ee","0b257af4ac97e5f26390ed5a5a3a31b1053141bc015cab954e9171e3e126b614","3dd2b70b6c1d1e7a3388f71414deed87435e67d80bfb29e6fa52cb3fed84f7e8","a21260a3b3feca1d6975bcdc8cefc8114d0a842f3a7e63f8b9f1b1daec35bd2a","ea40ae0189ccbe6f115902554a87d5a76ecff9d4f22c2848cf6df598f3744e11","50c4eca268fbb41f8c6bc36d8a5d1b6cc09733d96f0fb33e6cb584096c56f695"]

Anchored

2026-08-19

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2514967984 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a902c…

Expected log hash

be0cb34bbab326d10b25013c37c9294b14554a6c6e9fac3dc68c06dc2c3c60e7 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":"v1787135269737","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:acrobat/delivery/en","quote":"It is clunky, overengineered, overwhelmed with useless menus","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-07-14","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a557c71baa2a29db2fd9abf","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 (9ddf6b9053b6…), 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.