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.

“Excellent payment system for local mom and pop small businesses”

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)

172ab7f5e11635ccb9692e2e9f667228e15a4eca7a69eec90c445b366e4e6933

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

24Qp+YXS5LYNFTpRSJoVD2UMNulFLgHrpk4L+r9zP6E6CP67lKzwYurl7J3NGZVO3aE4dVwXlg1juqiZAEsdBg==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["172754de53b9aeefa854f9393d4a96453cd625b70611b80ec8d6f314d89f553b","5ec3f748beee53284b19b9dad586014acf458199df091e68283b17e15ddb5a2e","2d2188c8c34b75475cf85f1bfe11abea60e1a97c221afb02735da07139ff6f47","e484f71d1b074ff5d63b4f4aaf647a697964c61e503112ddb60b4108e6fb87d2","00950da1d36a3d9c95a00dbfc0576462149b313002c0e137af72e19429488b87","eaef3a90ca1273cd34f1758160aa7faf3e77aaedaa421d60b86084550dc3becc","8e5230f1c3d67f52056a570f47af6420c9ec2a081bc9ab822365071843e66333","c671a5cbbfc8aca473cc6460176ffdefc716f03dcdc19bce3889db559f753ff0","346f4f9d6e7e8fbb70a7b0ac84c8295db9f5b611f5307e0614f0c083c87170b7","395b180c77ccd11120a7cda4cd1dd93f02a32dda4ea752d18370c9990eeea689","3debd39a24af6852066a31af419923ca1fb9349fdf8444f76aef62b0f9a98230","7fc459298391904a3838099fd1a0b7e635c26503d7f861328c446e440a4bd8b4","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:wave/price/en","quote":"Excellent payment system for local mom and pop small businesses","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-06-05","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a221de6df28343c547d4d17","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.