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.

“had to call the police as scammers”
Google Play · 1/5 · 2026-04-02

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 2904877428

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): a9bf712b238d2acf432c63d96e2b8ad0900ad43e3784973bf9d8376779e57a99
Signature (Ed25519, base64): W+NSK/JhgIUMVJfe4v48IbvA9uWoUDn64axTDzOZ9cH/X0oCJsgKl7C1NyRoFEvFga0A4zxLmG8vO7rtsuj+Aw==
Merkle root: e299bf38720a5a91bdf63bbc0205245bccdf3432ab1652c69342549658b7a9ef
Merkle path: ["a9bfaada6d3390eafde76c7e16fae8bd22854ab41fe1ab5501ab68c3f35ff667","2142d17781a24d40482ac47b9482b1bca329e1ed9b6390a66f53eb40b2ec51f4","a4ac758eb7dbd695dd302b28689fba0ff4c0df6f01cc39f69fd56320a228ab1b","fd35db94b18b1438ec0ca3b955e6c5c956c2e8ed7cebb17896a12bdf48fb996e","f1844628ccb3044462b7aa17f583f27d05be1c6c522bcfed7d8faf5a663510af","72dca1b8b4db30c443bef586e5855206bea3d4c39282758e1ebd57f2a7fc9806","80874a476b67d9a0eb0e45c454959966b7e21e9c9f555b8e4c8906b23f79ca25","d26311c0c7305dba3ffacbe8f727c43b0c30a1093cd574bd9573dc587e7070af","b3a64d20ce774fbc3a1c3a5e519f5d56365fbf2b5f1779712c27cdecf215238d","aabb4fe113a24d3a44f301fbeba0bde0eda8f36726902252f97518bfdf0cc228","a6ecc7945e06bac9cf0f38375c8d85385377d79041dc0f17aa06822dd5084a69","6c2612f525e9372e44b0deeb0737e4e68d621df2f62b7144b07119251a9b517c","b5d03b72964f911025dbd61c2eea673598b47768b7619e9a279966a44a138147","e3714293de39ce3c6e3cb9d5ea7711343b19d2be532c75504682d8ef52e8f91e","2a462314156907e42d6f0d96eed96123f1d79516aef73ed189d9f5466556b638"]
Anchored: 2026-09-21
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 2904877428 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ab408…
Expected log hash: d020708737f55ccdf49203f373fcbcefe8158cc388605556fbfda3c365de7360 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":"v1789881486272","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:xero/returns/en","quote":"had to call the police as scammers","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-04-02","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xero.touch","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 (e299bf38720a…), 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.