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.

“We now have to spend over $50 000 in the Supreme Court to regain access”

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 2789279696

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

42a13e7e8266b5440ff42c21c5b7a7f01af5a0f50047b15add0dd9986358e569

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

f8UCJbXyzXfGHgfcji82wSeA9/EflNSZeY8/w1VA1JkJHc/fWMqHgFiBzE2OQ8zfCchjmQVJPYZGJGK7D9t6Bw==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["42a444fc549b90ec8c6ac5b1f6300259faa80337e74ce722e00cba3899c90087","315bff17ae5919456a3f546335ad9f1c9b160057e233b18399881e2aa41b0b68","7882d0682514f788315518bf93824d4af24e296b650581310d38e6328bcd25f9","9cc4469a8bab899bdd920315b9de2129ac9a1def658bc30d3b1ce729324b7a3b","c87c47b53ac4745dc22c10825c0d27d2b7a0e1d8220dfd58150ee98f2c71a783","c01e22a2adfd32114a84ac083f0be9129e046dd1c55479009b042e8050fdc03c","9f27fd3e2bcdfc68e9b63100bb61a46d914309fc34e000cb53bf17dd7d9b88c5","96f9fa7de6a0a084869e77ea76d8ac4ca43af4fa91a47606f1a08ce36b2bfd33","8f7f0a80575eb112cc8d499dcd3d7c659022c1cee6d246122918fdeb595548c4","6449754c291daef3c8450e5e815fc507e421e240c9ed6a98d427e6038baa5928","4751a18a0ef2d274921212069f9f2b5290e43a95a5cae6a6ab4386457522e968","aa7c727744c972cb66fba1d64eea69090f0779e70821de9cee298fb3fcfb9463","b2cde2091952330dc6d7773f9467df58d2e8463851174cad44d4f743c8f8617f","a9559f2ca8536f2c18bf059f3f0099d62235a93ac35dc17b09967d392b72be7f","01242865574478f13dcf9d888236d7a907264abdb87f360db7db06de0945075a"]

Anchored

2026-09-11

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2789279696 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a3885…

Expected log hash

05c7009ecf7ce5cf315c252c2a1dd135e64989a02cacdaaa3c5a87412a2e921c 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":"v1789017464005","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:xero/returns/en","quote":"We now have to spend over $50 000 in the Supreme Court to regain access","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-07-10","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a503f66b660756a9cc9b225","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 (97eb1062a862…), 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.