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.

“the first two sign-up authentication emails finally turned up over 5 minutes later”
Apple App Store · 1/5 · 2026-09-01

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 3178115911

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256): c4b926327887625856a777f25ae7b89682a9da25fa3adb30a723084a5e21dc03
Signature (Ed25519, base64): 5mf3a6p5mSscwHR8e8d7p6WgPXEEABLNxmggtj3uuMzWIV+KpO4FEELkGLV1j172zCjqWqMt3xBTTRzr6qbMBQ==
Merkle root: afb9ffbb4b4e88017e1c868247f919ebcfe69f09127d391e7daa08019eb2b63b
Merkle path: ["c4bfdb61d6fb6ed1f5e5c1757f530803dd96f2fa143be37a163c66ef833a0349","fd4d01ec0bb46b584f6212f3db4da397ba9bf6a233bfe17b0ce046dceeba36aa","e193d91dd4af5108a4fa2f8736513cf2df2f3aa0886bccb4c7de8044509252c8","01ad0baec3d173e21fb0ef8771c34c4197f01bfd07f72b304916a8460b3fca7a","d824520b6561bc4e8dfdc9b0e2b06a3cef2bdbfb3d9af34142716fa183b7b1a4","e1ed2859be495098bd60b40ec814ca3231aa6b4a2328e4a540bb57d4c9feb150","32861ab24371b700490b28a14ea4ae5d6a4f25ff855f624a2a069a332c1191af","61a2566071d11c5f82a784c75df0c443b0f74f1603484e21f41e834e9ba81676","d7161f569951968ad332ff95b599646fd2de1b8a2940b292e3f8f335906e0e6e","a46a59254885ab3c9bd0bcdff741cfb69e1160b1a6b08e557e78bbde7783d35d","be56097e271676e2319f2b875ed2d8ccac996acf8d794ac4798787ea1d0e8813","252be15183e09fee4d1c0aff84b58bc3548ce50f2b76a47a6d62da8ce249981b","27628b11fcf7ded1e46c91a94184a9aee79e58bf13ca8182b43edf02fdf3b782","5c5f731502958b375bc1d9a553448dbbddc644c5b57d6bfb1c2392c3f578da0d","72bbc4ee0a973113b1d556f76d02fea2c4704794a0d313a96e49ff7b6174dec2"]
Anchored: 2026-10-10
Public log entry: search.sigstore.dev, log index 3178115911 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a2bba…
Expected log hash: a144ffc32dfaa9fe45b4895b7f4c17280667152868dd8de227ca2811c60c870f 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":"v1791604579182","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:bitwarden","quote":"the first two sign-up authentication emails finally turned up over 5 minutes later","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-09-01","source":"Apple App Store","source_url":"https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/id1137397744?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 (afb9ffbb4b4e…), 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.