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.

“venmo constantly refuses to run their payments”

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 2525010456

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

f14c35185fd91524ccfc17d21bfc4fda7c268546788f8e70fae7a4c9e1e7e975

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

nfCK5hR5zUSaZ5siLsItTiQA6v9HQKYkDYavX5aTWBvCx/2an/zsnX7iZ5FdzHSZCLYPjUMaRS9bMCeTj7FMCw==

Merkle root

c69b412346f0db8d88aed17dbaf2e4876a3743c1c4d16fb306ba56b5c0573123

Merkle path

["f14b13db99960c4acd0f74e39428c42a352466b0808592fa57424ee8bfb77acf","f1b42d7715f30a87a4242506070e68be4237a1f2e7bbbe1c213f1de144c026a6","71fc17ffb4f9d89bf01bcdb76847360d0d50541943d763968f966c0a05ea2159","4ac2e6350d4b24ad28c9d1891677536cb2184a4c35e94a80d59d52ebbccf5b6d","3ff7ff024c4ffec70df45e177f9454d4d0b7ea24acae1b101cf64391b213ebfa","7d7fb0b934287c4d7a26d8f15e0da7207d2cc5854725b7083632b89103fa4279","95f469055144e218aeba85ef25547af8052526820b35265bbabeace1cabb9e54","93f67db5d2d145d40a1b6fcea545f5728b0eb5af336484e15c2fd9d0eb1c2ba4","146c98ae6237a1c0a560c7a4b8cf416d8fdaa8393c324e7b2ea8863399d6db5c","2db31daebafa9adc642ede7a7a896a69ed9dd48ded19f43e1497e0a4ca9b1aba","7611f7d9d45e1aa2559a9669fb320fa8de860ddd2f2bbf9f1750f5870b97c7e9","be573a7f1b72f2ba796f13eca2ce49adcab5b24638217940d33f5ea473838f89","f0a12fd268a34d0f9b23bfa8bffff7480f1f51a4e4044173daacd716efd0fa79"]

Anchored

2026-08-20

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2525010456 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a4287…

Expected log hash

659be4fcc7663b2dc65a53351e16497fea44ed9ec8aef1f3c48c8e452b350dc6 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":"v1787194832011","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:pdffiller","quote":"venmo constantly refuses to run their payments","rating":3,"review_date":"2026-08-15","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a800a2f7a611365ab9ec026","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 (c69b412346f0…), 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.