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.

“the follow on / after sales care is useless to non existent”

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 2514541190

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

ffbedd636d5ca504fe6d277ac304a44e2abea8c1bea7f5c7acd8afaa21167054

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

NmQ9Xw8JpfvnZU/OE02lWrXW48eLiqZQB7fb8fuQyzoTBH8uCGs6zJoS7A88f+9s8jstxxXCpbKWkfaCyi3CBQ==

Merkle root

6ddadcc7cc1bb0679f63a30d8a28a2a72e039950945f2d7276487dd5b703ff7b

Merkle path

["ffbe2ad5232c3bfd7f672e0a47772c5ec836d1d8c4d3857c57e62afbe28fd216","bf01b09b7d1645c317325bbb44399b0d9bdce9e0ccabab7230244889d2742bac","a7bf95f2e1be1b0110bdaf1c490be7d1e125305f8dcccd95b744be24bbf78025","7d1ed761018b2fc46d0db9df3d9cbc0c5f628e01ffe918b8030f8499f5ff88af","14e70e7574ac8a33432a28f3e9ef091f1e66c139caa3643f9796893fc0f6df30","2788b242ff7243462507d61ae1621c804a981da93b44ec8deec623f5968ae8ed","6c312a5e3b9384806ae6bd2ace24c35124b03b67b74a9c65fb6cfeed9a590635","7bc23c7c984795d8ec106469afd2695635f045fa7f925435e06c4443276f5d07","c720ba5f7d896de08c6c653f034df6253d73438a17eaa4da90a15067a6060afc","366be40f9a826a1f9f414f5bd1dc69b8a5e86031f347bbb2fed9c67e1427e4de","b40ab33f2e52ed4a90d4b252b515f92c935ced18ec43a91b524f940a12678caa","1d83f6615db385673b65f8ebddbdf4ced98d2ea1acc79049e3086b75a832a99c"]

Anchored

2026-08-19

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2514541190 · entry 108e9186e8c5677acb65…

Expected log hash

adca5adcd6d3235cf084bc9b408d3e4d7742d07347957346ff2629f37429bf20 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":"v1787130614827","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:fossil","quote":"the follow on / after sales care is useless to non existent","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-07-24","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a6357f733b9bc059c3676e4","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 (6ddadcc7cc1b…), 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.