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.

“I do not recomend Swatch products at all!”

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 2524810465

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

fd744ba281cde09652483f2f8dab9a49640285a7f3db8bf4d48e17b30a4bdbd2

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

c0/VZinCoOqgQ3h5JvhbPcJnoVq4H4mZd68xBohsn3sES4wDLuHNtMsRa5S80TF8M5GXUEWhy7MWtOltnY2KDw==

Merkle root

3e1c67438f658ba7fd015e6979c1bfd82d90efb0848cecbd4d902d6b2ed171d3

Merkle path

["fd76eeb1b3501a9334f59ff54bf210c7d0dd108d0c38353003244f90ad83127d","4c2ae601aa004ac67d60f4b46bff5969e7e2b77890039d87a16c569c6dc83245","a01337e2701b7ec3a6f62d89fc12fa6f9536376fd477f20df3389d64abfa4c0f","61f686bb45021e9d0aa1f58ba699afeef483d1e5bd91399233ec59d537e9a5ce","0424ddfbd65ccf19ee34013eda484990c92da67fe575a51252ee2ab00613c3c9","f2b3f0d5bdb3410db8e9294bdf4aecddfa4468e27992ae46b060b9341c432afc","907a66ec13d3b55d19b330b9f72a62816adf017a0d6678cd1eac58cc9865e44c","8593fe754ba8fb39aae0db2ec494fd859a922ed422baca2ad5bb3f96c5d7a0fe","3856d116865ab728fd47a2c45e53e4be5480ec26615d8991258bd9bf8e66acfc","8e843967843f45fca5ae295bb8067b393f5706c9dd4aff34b47ed9968e42e02e","bb7bbf6f568971e46c339201da8a96bb6a6c799d83bcb98c5de8e5a4b9d99a0c","48925020460bba3dda217ec8c974e96be1bded9d1769192f63a66523a3769db0"]

Anchored

2026-08-20

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2524810465 · entry 108e9186e8c5677af074…

Expected log hash

129b219cb6155ac24569a579c61e8fc9cc2d89305732944b8849d5e719dfd073 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":"v1787193927339","kind":"published-quote","locale":"de","page":"brand:swatch","quote":"I do not recomend Swatch products at all!","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-08-09","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a789a73bcc265b754a57392","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 (3e1c67438f65…), 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.