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.

“John Ekilisie was incredibly helpful”

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 3163352270

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

4f303968d84cf88dafffa66bcdd6daccf5d43017fdafc80adbefcdd890d0482b

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

LcOO7Yomy5eQrrH3KJDPNALlED1Ay+AevAVbv2mp0gSyCCvuddL/npf+5xQWXRD1iacsGlLTUPOKYFIg0BXeAA==

Merkle root

784ff8fc3c42eac43c7d399f0d67bba55d28073a7e106789ae0c6c3f5ac9dcc8

Merkle path

["4f2e82182e85da0a00b278239f4ba14ff9a5515be79d1155f9c40bf9c166318a","e8199fa68685fb87d2e5c6f1c843089fc332fdc57f9d68e4e3384c124f3764da","51650ca8192135f9d44d6349cab8db98301a79fdfa577faf45f72d8ac4a37557","8422c66729baaf10c09973a36d1c2617526600463dbbbcfaf4969cdb83197a08","18748d736b1469e455ef53acfbe210fa8a76b06f14b92525a3d922d8b07d57fa","99eb39d8406ba02c36f0749edd9e2aebdaedc827a13958bbf33ffe462706ceed","eda6e164c301a6c388f0a4c27ad570e3126eb95a211eabbde0c2bd02737b507f","b2a3e4944edcceaea61e765cf93fa9b8e5bc26eb324cd455cd45b29d32859efa","418e9ed83a497675413a0c0273b63b988a3f31d471dc5b2dcde9f63a7f2ed83c","4375b7d9621f5dc613f66ca81920bd1fea762e858e3b08eadc2007f2f313ba5d","0f6141035fc654373fa68607e905d183a1565d2fd8d74535155178f8ac9b5a19","df4080343f159e809d1e5bc9f8a14b1ad519cf12a20097b0d95cee98c4ce6d74","2c4a19f22e337f5c4b12692deb8a5f8a7c64abf566c3dce060b63f26f421c3f4","7c65cdc9460755a327943aea2ce97e2f5c6080d778d9434fe2dafbfbc1e3b04c","5fa09e3847513934bffaf71960ac2a100e20422698698ab1e19a4fe8ac133514"]

Anchored

2026-10-09

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3163352270 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ad020…

Expected log hash

a3ae0badac804d14d314abd0e71726d06a96c43a3840dc1d63acded9268c461e 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":"v1791543790412","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:xero/service/en","quote":"John Ekilisie was incredibly helpful","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-09-08","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a9ff6393e343e35c56832d6","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 (784ff8fc3c42…), 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.