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.

“Really helpful and I'm super pleased with my accounting software choice”

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)

197853faa3c230991930cb49c6ebcc300ad71b8c77a3fea5128851d728dca36c

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

uDuAMV8CHrBJUlrqlzCzHOIuAVgxWrnRJ4y1l8ye5hP6v+NzLmdQXOTa6bxT6XfqrHrtYgGBDjCine3Q0MVlCA==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["19759783e4b8d170fe656ffb3dcf54e58cfc7f3552b2f36d15057ef02393d7f5","63ff17ba6978f404bcbaac8ce2f5c276903956b47c070264c4d4a3e5e039a67b","d0395a69805db79921c7c73962d0b3f4e201f0d159a544d72f4ddba0f86544e3","9276a9d786f70ab6c044b151233f8e35843420fa1da220086469ca827beac53b","6acea38e5f8f6a256c0b48f612a6dbd048cce42e6d4ecdd2e92cd5c244e2b769","0a1b911c89f30dbc88722125f9120cd81106302e658961ba7c2dbe6701ea32d4","4f1128684089769aba8020ede85d86e5614e47a1cbe9fa0c01c273e8ac715d97","0b28eb8913a409820de854d861c00d1642b97e55ea0e087d4c362401c47ef6bf","5f6dc7425ea651eaf0cf4f2ab80d1b05a3d29e812290cf0240d28100f3946c6d","1a518fc55f456ac8a3fc1149ce435adbc642ba8b892aa64974a81b798eec6a67","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:xero/quality/en","quote":"Really helpful and I'm super pleased with my accounting software choice","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-09-03","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a9985f1c45b583a1027789a","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.