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.

“Awful Customer Service”

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 3637467057

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

1d0fdb35bbca9b0cc02d3dfeaa52c1cd41a3650943eaffe736ec3e85fa1dbea4

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

/IjhJhTvsj/gs66bkokJ4jyBmZwl+pcnkG7oHacurHht2fAigQ7asiHJslVSSDQ4h0pRZg/9RChgTDal/YZ9Ag==

Merkle root

adea50978c44b7e5a42deebe1f6aa800128d7cb9d40a380b6d66c0a0412d1342

Merkle path

["1d120f2ccdf867077a3a47db5e8a460994772418072de9d6e84b2f7517ef2334","520384ccec4644f491d78743ee405536876857c633d50f826a8988fa89812981","2b0a267526942040689d59ca7451470eeef50aee21504e592bd75970915e9100","5f160e720ddac7fe1fe973d97a92b79cfaa6d77090c9a1a08342361d3b9afeb4","30bb2df1089219ed1193b0e79d22433bdebec920ee43cff6a5f37fdf62b14db9","74fce025e3767f9539643c421ff4ba09738a9b51b3c8ae81b74a4b13bd6e38f4","9c35915c26303b1e02e683fba06789bafe50c7c253a904ff96631b8d260a5a0e","856ba730364a0955f402f1b2cee6b3d8581dd157a023026758e4fcc1675d02c9","365b50cabd7b3517360807f65726612045d733c075384b607311d2a370014327","105bb50501135751042ae647e1537cda4661fabea91ddd1535ccf42512d49a91","ec209e65f02de48fab186fc58e944668a01473e813087b0fb66edc94d870bcfc","50ec2dae976e3d44f2664fb95a79e395a9792bad555e73c7828fab9d1d15f4d0","b33a96ef5b980f3655206c9db064bb6266945457b59b4b98e2e19f698343d0e2"]

Anchored

2026-11-02

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3637467057 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a9713…

Expected log hash

e8a3b7eb12262f106844c69fe5603c2e4003589f206935cef50a87cb382b9cb3 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":"v1793588145516","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:xero","quote":"Awful Customer Service","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-09-09","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6aa14cac9f19440c8ab23c32","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 (adea50978c44…), 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.