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.

“John Ekilisie was incredibly helpful”

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)

02859b59dfeeb46632ad846bd715c70420cd047810a0d24c8e3df542e4925c53

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

2Tdf5FdKSg+gVgjApmNu4+X2svjGZv8Y6GUOQHf6dxIdAYjnRJIrqxPybyTBSaHlAUFVG0RL9vMdigpQZQLoBQ==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["02823318eac5d86a9438f072cce783805f5751e35917fbdc073aa1b0bf581033","614207298f9e25267c6c94dfa5017513baa35fda9d363f1e3c6a6c66acb606fe","2b2aa2132676153ab16a631643ec0c35eadfeaac4eeec217af66317761db0cc8","39bac764fb1fedb02121b67e839842bb5664c14abf4e086d384204dd63a0e152","e26d4529ddb24bea9040eb6d8f85c210b01c1ca3fe37d6a04dded03d89fd9c6f","0f1a4732c635e94b7657f2c028415f8e9def5f96c5ab99c0f08cfcce707384fd","382f8fcc34087f5375571a9fff5d936e8e9748bbd5b94c92b38c26f7ea91dea8","382ab040d4bbbf6c02ca2fe61eb83b8fa509340574c1204c71e4ec70b7935177","5d9d600f3ded5efeb1a87066ae4743f9210bf4ebb08010d0a026b8bef89e4f0b","d107752bf8ae4d75701e518a4f05f0eb4b551e1f5cb567f319566cb1f61d0db3","5b9b96529384f7bb81bb92f10de9b43784ae20d39c933bbf96b1bb4c3548928e","6c14202f6f4d89338c781140a2504c6d469b19d300474270ba84f87831aa8464","5b47260d99d2c4ad6e0d963995c990c8506dbf10eb0b146a116c3fc6ba348071","a9559f2ca8536f2c18bf059f3f0099d62235a93ac35dc17b09967d392b72be7f","01242865574478f13dcf9d888236d7a907264abdb87f360db7db06de0945075a"]

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:xero/service/en","quote":"John Ekilisie was incredibly helpful","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-09-08","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a9ff6393e343e35c56832d6","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.