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 3220996539

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

1c0170ab8e1ff9c1fa8e2e5659563c64b9d260923e6e6f48850afef8e3195628

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

8QCkup1BmZLqxJR4mLFZ24u9alkZbeHn4hRySttlLYNs8BIQbUbG3rd+uB0HL9+8AccYx2k7WZS83dlAQaaSCg==

Merkle root

1b0b408c7cf60721bf3cca50f4b7f268b0858a42fba11906e486c6694252cb22

Merkle path

["1c020e3ae32e123589f53d6b57f7feadbe8ba87e4410117db0484c916cf9a7c4","6fb41b34d816f1735957282843d2bffa7a8edb6acaebd808a7b49fd4bf530678","f697a63264219d5bfc564ac4835fdaa2289b7aa8a0b150fef52855af04be1173","e00e65343205ce86ea1908588390581eafbc93a9fa5ebd8b906e72654dd90166","c70b3f90077fc8ed1f029c43c12cc377423c68300879396b0908953fd2d73507","98860425edb3aa39c7c648ffd29fe1e2f56f550d21c3788af3daac1e91c79fa9","c6a606ac2abad63be2ded178f3190d357b5ba844f052bfb013f01818f438f4e5","4fba1ba734765c06cd18e9ddf10e4878ff51995544c7f8b8a4acdb474bb1c60e","1e3cbe7f98aeee6b0f4d6edebca0fcc243b4e3a5c5c79f591cf264c4e8ab3188","ac8d143b17877cb262844e59e77aa603d0122ac7a24d2f9cb4988a4a58aa5ee5","b95c64b286fd7d6a7e842c7f3bdb75225e5b731fc95abd0e0c7d50834fbbe026","affe0a53d536804a9512c630206a4b534a27488761c0b34e6878dbcba4a8ae6a","bd64ca269edabfbd30efee623435236838862399942a0d08ad142d3df41d1142","8547750c311d384cbb1a945300d6b6fb4f4bd2b78af7177366b3baa4b4c1e724"]

Anchored

2026-10-12

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3220996539 · entry 108e9186e8c5677add5d…

Expected log hash

00694de1434e648cba57bf07fb439ed90ba501083441667555bcf619bf5edce8 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":"v1791779426071","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:wave","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 (1b0b408c7cf6…), 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.