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.

“You would think that a business software application would be making the lot of small business easier but XERO is adding to my administrative burden”

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 3258859570

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

293fbd06b3ebbd59b22791422e21fdee4d588b84ab4efec8e8696985e58cd163

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

zjckJMSs9Rioj7dye3oKVsCooY7Rgj9OTHsX05U6CMze4/Ct4no6Xg14lvGebuEVtaPVBBtsUhZSo5SmJ6jJDg==

Merkle root

ca3049e83faa90e23a8ee728d82960c74b9da8080000e4c92979853b767b75e4

Merkle path

["2947239f70ea2fd182b2ad779bd6424650c1cf61961a3a87f9eff35cbfa95bbb","17855e065599be999ad01e1c654463f281a5a66b95d76bae49a758ce73d7e4d1","8272fe21eeb9d6c14b8998c0026883a6681ef14fb32b04b516841c37f467a55c","6d5fe990601eb8089f8c0b8e6bccc34be1d129df5e8b272b7067ff43e51832ea","60cd6b6ca97c1f0c0006341fc6a021a0e72ab66bd9a321b98c13e30d90598dc7","88269948d9b4b596ab3a4499c74bfe27c73e690be5c92b9cffb522f035dbcd79","9efbbeb502be2c5d71ebc2c189cd8f8754b70b1c940e48b7d77939c7815e35f8","d2ec186523128dbdbead6bc22876ab0e49634d288208fff1b388fa93bb243028","f286a285588aa2a6edd88b001e80393033ea8eb873474461d49188384d86123b","b8666cf24a8dee4952cf60c798968c99be4250495f8d19a64ca045c3d967e5eb","3c861171afc1234c13d38e0a9581ac6cb6efc1343332ad0b81835f9345442915","c528a565399f1c43ffb0fc3019a2c2cee2d7413a87787555bb34d4d613541976","3eed51977edad6c2579b7e509587049321fa77487298d3b73535214036c0118d","7614ef067de1e21e5c4ed10ec802ff07f79b9dfb75186edc1d9abf343905b9c9"]

Anchored

2026-10-15

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3258859570 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a8fb5…

Expected log hash

37382a24206a9b79ef105a983cf477ccafc4b4430b1549876c44fbf5fedaafa5 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":"v1792034893828","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:xero","quote":"You would think that a business software application would be making the lot of small business easier but XERO is adding to my administrative burden","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-09-03","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a99ed1d07ac1977c5f5c503","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 (ca3049e83faa…), 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.