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.

“No Australian accountant will even look at my accounts until I move away from QBO.”

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 3288590621

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

26d79d111aa1ddd676873675fd8742f9b9ec47355d87c3592f78ea9732af9ae2

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

Ia1vtTZ2M3tKUBKsDQQhhqw2NR843lwKHjLZgpnpIyMEEPCiVCC5HvhYKR+ybAFVyo6Rt19z0LXLTOBiZblTBA==

Merkle root

5ee295eff08f25e1ca2fd839bd395df8ebef79af0e57c3d4ee8d263342a19422

Merkle path

["26de35a88b1e7286e4111223074d9999f6873e8bd817aa26b7acf05371bcad23","42bc6d80d2ca923f764520caebf62152de7272733945295860cb36b6a7a66fd9","db79db7d807a38d22ed5f5f8aa2c6ff05eefd843e4241672edb8611c2ca71eff","6d9687915480edd77d18b55009ce2b1cbc83d7348ee7c6de4bd61a5e24a75d3d","26a66f963efeb62338e00123a1561947220de77e60067037027cd75dbea093cf","ec383abe706640f00d6057958553832339648efb800be508f65dabd44773d904","c135575c09f3f7f915933cf5cde34e0115b9339da73eeab77caccfbb12526ee8","bf7eeac9463a993dfabb016d07b6ffbe1cb6baa23668cf5b3ff3b4a49160106f","5130bea92dda4187e2bcb6e0b2a354e9876ae73d82a4e6ab555e7f8f252b732a","fa60901e5d9a6069af23ca58f6f98b17e1d8692c7bbcc30e2eb26411af8beda2","1796b7a61028ee62986581a9c2f32c92a4b98e8f269828a155dab3bacd878595","41ff37d2ba7c20d129650a01caa12fd58478b2ba725f6a1900a5e8a6edde7742","149a88e487e0a55b368195abac6188b4f1a5ff2534a675089a6bffcc120ce8bc"]

Anchored

2026-10-17

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3288590621 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a25c9…

Expected log hash

74cd7239ea435495013841baa58ae65725dc6474b09f06da03b154f0c5d58357 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":"v1792206865504","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:quickbooks","quote":"No Australian accountant will even look at my accounts until I move away from QBO.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-08-25","source":"Google Play","source_url":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intuit.quickbooks","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 (5ee295eff08f…), 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.