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.

“Wave rejected my payment processing application because I lacked prior "payment experience"”

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)

e1a4b0d665e97476b2ddb7848349e79eeae18262505ef6942f37161c62afcad7

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

xpqlVvvOXVtzHzMtge4S2XG9X0EnUtif0hXpAIcsOhkkuZucbewdxvIZmC988CQJyQYfCYvaNW1Kce/JcRYzAQ==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["e1a67e715239a16d7163f10f642208ef63822b655feed82c5626437424d28f1f","d4ff1be2fdd98e162bd8fd2f27bb529b9c8a18a9e0186ba78867aec3d8f3264c","78ed4248d69ea6064622f13de677d9912a4e17ffa93d5327ebd308b6e08aa623","7e8f8975285fef44815ddac502d6e3aea841719e6f3f3845f9b3317fe5d79303","897907cdc713d3d386c2bd1bc36848fe2dfc70bdb11457ca89baf7f73e662704","79d4182b49d6e659acc0526c2f4466750723c7df95f22214323914afdb29f2f6","795482bc35cf50fbd3c260be5765dee9940709b2f228011242f4bc96452c5704","465d7e67fd3e3acc5c9cc0f1cb933311808305e30a80f14b5bae04e95d0d47f5","11651711677f93094f00c8263b86c08d0a0a0cffa775f60c7b2a57aee816e1ad","000f7eef031ca038d3066c97b177f6dd0ae6af8f09805ef3eae4f1a18cda7dec","341cca8d51d1839f5f1c76313bc70c42466b2a8f28fbb1520e70fae87c581435","640b197bc6c52e1ae889c0e8b7a59a99fcc90984c8b3bd71fee23168c95ccff5","6a087565eaa0768d4c576fd78f88585a902d61259a245be7f47bc24b1ead4c18","fb01c9b29e184d558c43a512ba05af475ec20eceeace4dde365559da92299892","46bcfbc656e0e2a380a8a94cdc0be3d8b4c668e5f9e54a10ba396a45b371339b"]

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":"product:wave/payments/en","quote":"Wave rejected my payment processing application because I lacked prior \"payment experience\"","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-07-25","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waveapps.sales","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 (97eb1062a862…), 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.