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.

“terrible business practices”

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)

febe18f8a30c8fb7a9a23fc5c8f4ea45dd3751f6d89cd4adbf8af93feb3b5d93

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

jp/r2a8IiiL7OxMdLKL8Pciu+n1mh29TrlExl2bG2CiHNIm4oxaXKUsopAXmV50v3GkNCeftW3LtJzahf79hCQ==

Merkle root

c69b412346f0db8d88aed17dbaf2e4876a3743c1c4d16fb306ba56b5c0573123

Merkle path

["febb50e5010f5c9efa89f30312a24c7460320b9bc944cd7f7350caeb87909d20","57a9bcbfbcb7a963ce7d42b1c1778a44c27f8b63fc08b91ca368a72d22217c8e","16f4df793933460f68b9b7790249f758b5bb57b75624e71a1b42516fc7ab413e","de1fe83b19797899914429b3f2111c28e40ca1066497f65e5529b2f4dd90e9b1","840a977137339a652e54954b482d8b51933faf643b863607a059f23d17fe80b3","f473051dcad27f7ff967577d0f30677bd328570690a8b635aeb468d4bdc21d94","8808521eb712b952528217ec3ceee6ddc582aad97200251bc0950ceebe7449e7","e38ca10972e6fd0f6bba6abff90a228f190ff3542b74d71dc35ae113e9e7ec19","840ece02dfc5cdc7c551e8f20b5bd59debe3229327f8bf61b97d61dcc94abc3d","36719f1b23c05f63fcd2222578c257961e3b0f082eca282fb394dfe6511e563c","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:pdf2go","quote":"terrible business practices","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-04-02","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/69cdbdb6327793a50cb8a1f6","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.