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.

“It is an incomprehensible, anti-consumer money grab that punishes the smallest 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 3273209361

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

3d30c4fca4f2e440fc30da069380769bbb2d8ee0a00e92e2cf113693f50ef41a

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

5go14HTJSupPbkvpI9+S38gh4jg5Nv7X4DnzLQNl54nnAzjHuBawAJR9JcFttdDINZnI1yE2RmMBb6TYJJ0GBw==

Merkle root

6ebb2d3fb78e4a08533ac6b6852f3c84687141ae9b0e78424d88bb4161267bbd

Merkle path

["3d308d108f69a32ea7edef726dbdbc355d6ed94e5fd45e98d6a5dc0a8386e242","01e95bade6fdde4da28d0402d469512082ebe056cb3a82fb4da376bbe0fb9bf3","0190d5ac03e2ac7d3d3ae3972a15c8b8844bd35ba6e46183ba403e5cabd051d3","77c6cb1b484dd4b5175f25d626b25a1150abb13ae18f52b0ec0f9f9904a72b63","0b559cfe51d078ccb0407a130c788714ecc0b649db9eff4998df3b12a909fc97","20d174d78b60ee3281eae9202424d2383e663b190e0911017064dea522debb40","2a36b0fd1495ba12830c36c7ec71120bed23762799726fb4e2f51df321ff55bc","18e877e6a11d8fb704e5ee39daf12546d59926b78591caca18c63ec2432c1462","c482cd050235ad1af5e067b1ca1acb306756e9ae39dfd89b7e441bcf1aa2da7d","287effaab2b095f9fb87733d95c651c980cdd58f9a0fec926b3edfda4e0df3c4","8f40766752d908ec7576b4a7964a0946021f5a55cdedbf0e53752f919a8cc3cc","ac9426223fdd19a53790a705e99880cc53b0a3afb83ce65a816c05b5df037361","b2809ea8af334e57adb596cf07ef2c411ca41ee72761a0ae0fbef01d75a71a23","32d6dd564d479cc6b7834d44d5078d8ebc72c40210e72f0d380fac04d2d8e87d"]

Anchored

2026-10-16

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3273209361 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a732b…

Expected log hash

bdbef22d23477d2ccfe2ed182ce8ec54934b3bae489c9913db850af171e33062 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":"v1792121074379","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:xero","quote":"It is an incomprehensible, anti-consumer money grab that punishes the smallest businesses","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-10-14","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6acfec5bedd8c7f9dd3d8433","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 (6ebb2d3fb78e…), 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.