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.

“I have been a 30 year quickbooks user”

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 3162173160

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

317a8b289469f5f46da2d38eae84a5d5a68452b54d597fc14a5e00416bb53c27

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

pL0+d21fHOf0GgeRYMivmhOkEgxu8+9HSrhXOkCpyfj+A4M2Q8HtIbU1xNN8puU+ZQNbGxeNP6WU95exK5oSBQ==

Merkle root

47aef0bbc5d347d2f064428fd7eda9e99f7cea2d49004267bc87db0e45c42023

Merkle path

["317e707c682f4dff6e676d6c2f7fef8346ae37bdd49cd5338aef62e1e5f1111e","a8164be4a43ea0270975522d7029e29c3a4d40324c525552231316081a016e10","cee4e3ae0e8343272c9cf1ca24d9b734c7a77903a609bf11756ee8118c6ecb84","10d3fa243650d51350a9c3bb66615f449ed2efcaad7ae903c589e50e57a6d0f4","9bd4c2f95f3bf0820482d0ddb45069385a918f6796a24e993ded1b59b37a47d4","f9fc09ed8ed48dfb0495f5d93ee517f4b8fd020d2f6b69cea38ddea03f6614c7","6023bf7c149dd77be869f46b90ed745b3d3ccea705fcbc4a905f1297820b2a80","86f62067797dac44afff11a3ddb16fe00e5179841e0d716e9806e4e844c71257","e19f0c737f0d2e7d8ed6df3c5030d3ae0dcfaf0553da4ac060095051643ee357","e9c5192021234a9b42a8c518d3702ae7b15114b0bea8444f1be15f1b6c4872bb","e673ad64015b8a490f62e5afdc0d63c16ca3162772f781d927fa05d310224dd9","9ce9da1fc4942d3216ef7e34b4970b7f92c10b35f2bdbce79226d95a000bde9c","e3337465312a8871a96efb0ade03deb67d9f2b05a969c667a895567781acf005","0889ae3150c7685b34e529b715a23984c1ad15ae15f158815b083df85c4c26d0","681b858a978b3dea64df3700a937a058d6290a8e519185bef8ee7388d7739dda"]

Anchored

2026-10-09

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3162173160 · entry 108e9186e8c5677aaa5c…

Expected log hash

00d82a97e8d5da8f3bb4a78d598390d6b030eb8338f0e0735ffde6aa5047ae68 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":"v1791539060014","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:wave","quote":"I have been a 30 year quickbooks user","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-05-20","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a0deb7d9d97cad26814a023","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 (47aef0bbc5d3…), 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.