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.

“Excellent payment system for local mom and pop small 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 3126883925

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

603bda65a9f0cceabadfed4302e98e878914f44cb3ee98615a001521c8a9ac0a

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

qBqx3bP+qJDWUqrzbxF1Q9uDllVOqmIyqVWtyFK257ewy0BZBrJblcmH7CwGLRQrRLAHi+6QcBHZWwv8IxXnDA==

Merkle root

0d7fec37eb7aa7ca022c461398d36283692153bdca7d5292b2302abb6878e5f6

Merkle path

["603be0c07c5bfd2cd9932b8b27b80b0989a3384835c683bda13ff0dd449a2e25","a184e2515ca6d8797e90bb506446b68ad65c3b5c5adaa8e75a68a876902c4f2c","dce893e1a7c60a1bce0ed9e475fe2642b9e18ae01ea224c34e05725ebe2eb55c","314b95a4f5693f39c5712a24a586a20ea5a2dd3cdc3493a5298be242f9f70675","d3ab4548189ca6f19870c7136da1cda4eb17a319cba30e9dc352ede0388b78a6","e3ad263a16fd7a02c2510a3fbfb39e8a6df105b50b0eb5ee923cc3605eaf5ad1","984427dcd906dc32284f4c1e40dd5b541dd7ea0ceb317b3a093463c5610c0e3c","5ce42b290727ce4d4de38ee11f1a0c50c9ca0bd333879a7ee21d98d2509bc3b1","45c854c1226d28f523155d964fa6e2f2a908fddee15d3051bd213dc7b4682be8","45dfd7e9ae6198de0ec137bf39484c974d1fe21bd532a33b5f8526995b7177f9","a1966872df382a50b9fc877d489aa72db50933b02103923d0d5362535fdf378d","4ce12c2334e8f56fc30e7e4af9c0e326efa3c5646a10e71c10d670cf6a9c02ca","38ecadf8498df1719ecdff36e217de372cdc07cb84c4b18b50ce7d8a4750321d","7c6f9d1168e8a2f5a015e8aabaa46428ad67e71a9293d82f20ec40d2ad6c53fb","8c6d73d3d8b42a55077d4061fe37663a0906972431ecb9eb374f1f8461206839"]

Anchored

2026-10-07

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3126883925 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a6678…

Expected log hash

7790667e260445bf729ea3061132c2116b163a0e0b944eca343c9e8408350ef6 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":"v1791359818972","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:wave","quote":"Excellent payment system for local mom and pop small businesses","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-06-05","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a221de6df28343c547d4d17","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 (0d7fec37eb7a…), 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.