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 used Quickbooks for years for my businesses and had problems every month balancing the books.”

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 3637411721

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

1546a5e8dbeee115ee6a58d9012a786a2505d052fcc667d3c1c7fbbfc2c4fb16

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

zX52Ls2fG848SK6NdorA2DvhSp4hgCcBvAKT+OIgDD0950h3soHoRCrB5hFxXNbTj0+b3cL7jLYxM5vyQAFkBg==

Merkle root

7533cb8d8c04dee23596d4ccf0908b735d91b81fe92e605e13c527ecb5deb2d2

Merkle path

["155a8ce732ce3148576b56c64aaed37425853125e57dbe30a99020f9a1b2b6ad","6ffcad47cde0ae320c155c67c8838a194de98dcfdbbfce7187ac7b8869bf21f5","e5ad28d0c01bccc0174f4bc9e90a17bd10d0afdd1eb29be3f9dbffbdfca70283","15b56830b340ac635a13bff176f4f37072fd51bd90d6a4d0f9ae9632c9703c92","29436bc673670e53864a91b7ad9264ea6122514778ac3d31c6cbc48aa66ee4d2","1f34c7ef995b8b512ec1353d7887b1f3b4a9db7fb132d22d05fe67778e8d6962","ef3aa147d28f056e8c865ac6d38532a60ce700dd4a8e883ef3f6a6938e9b28bc","3178808337c12f68f2a8bc46ad0e6ff03a3f102fa4ed07a0bde7425bd7c42b8b","a665e36852114e8e42f27b5a218e6d1046bf7f13c1001f1551c8d7f5b2340322","18c5a8b23b6a5cb7893b9cc4e8225b0c8e62466c46ee35a3bf672267a07a8ce4","689b1a284b8a44a437da2dd8aa35cd28112ca06294eb8fb9f0e9f43b406135c2","959618116f7bff6ed2072830f64b1ea0f4df8a2685ac6da49d6c45ba87916262","93bc8fd7f71ba29ff353e3337a18e3fae8da5d9c75f2209b2b67e1af3660ae8e"]

Anchored

2026-11-02

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3637411721 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a3165…

Expected log hash

5dfee0cb2ef036a9452adde296e783557348142e751437e8895b161fe04023f3 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":"v1793587829781","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:wave","quote":"I used Quickbooks for years for my businesses and had problems every month balancing the books.","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-06-09","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a2867661c88767e54e0b8b5","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 (7533cb8d8c04…), 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.