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 got locked out, and I have to pay to get my account back.”

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)

fe40930c3864b26e5345c96ec52c6fe74963b77c1f6cebbcf8c948e38f686e80

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

M8ZUSgxGXI7RIDNXeEU9yR/HmXrlhkJuVgDSglsas/fjuWo14/WSrxJxw1joZYy5DDwsqrl71NeY77BxWcr9Aw==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["fe43f16fd3e84264f130c199f002094bab3218e9d25c0ba36786add4f3e8b9ff","18ceafc0ee037736c1fb82d46f221cf6efcdb3ee1adc17625772d5f15afbb17b","71a9f917b15603afd038a26a0bba6ba456aa722f02d8d7a4666fb95bd8c492de","32638cf4e80e6a66e62901117ac0fee8387a7d4113abda3a75d0b0bb5820340a","0dba5b51245668915a09dfc1e0a095fce276ed3bbb32af2a3e259ce5049a4721","53d99564ccfbe0752b8a85287320698b583ca65b5b89439238b70cff88a363f7","d557806965dce6122f755e066a09afb15bbc52665274aeaac090fdf3954d0e6d","c9d0f137158ed9ad571ef658d880dd6dcd770654b14752a2554b2e3ea8e99033","9ad8b3800edfcb5751dad04e680e2cd13e3c1dca7475d94a004be8cf31efb983","f0cd1a8267a1839d529db5d6bec4547c492ced885b88c2cf73de52fbb7ed02ec","2773f567c680d36b45e8ddb9acbba84279386972ec0e40784af0d4b71e825e3c","da7efc44d6047fe3e579eca002977ed1346adde2d400823603e9388f5b72eb53","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":"theme:tuta/billing/en","quote":"I got locked out, and I have to pay to get my account back.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-01-17","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/696af3f3e616274a12d069e8","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.