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.

“They make it purposely difficult to cancel.”

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)

44268a6e6ec47984fefb22d86865a66eb6ce7ff886fa7d9865828cdc8be78366

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

e0cDkoabtEwRQ/UrDRkFj0o1zYzdbpoaNIBed2lj8DU2fmmm3perkeBBEh8JCiuO9gnpF5awOEHva8QTCL67Bg==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["44269f63abfd001066ed8335120c2a906f473a8e1e0804271d8f40f164959a7e","9cdd26f1a31ac96f0bbd2daec738e6fd1a96e863e28ad7c00b10df2fd7410e76","f9cef8ca0cbff57a228cacbc2919d3b31078b67817d82b9eb6f875c8c6d19cad","b34d97073bae43ce04f6e92b4b65df16726176a5f9bb4b3198ecbc9e4d1b2693","216145e88069900dab366d8a6ec93ec687f5423134b37ca5707d40aad17641ca","832b23ad5e5279beb55ff100d4fa4b049f6cf33e177e37b099dabdc2ede31dee","3b0a61a149dffb881365d0be8a28d04b38746a085de8572126573630f846573c","9356d362031db53392568e0ff754b5837808a05e8450796d062113f6843bd4ba","c4146f1d206b1d72c721b9fe2d5ff95f5458194a6236633020f237aa7c416f4d","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":"They make it purposely difficult to cancel.","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-07-17","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a5a51aacf6d06009204d0a0","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.