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.

“You would think that a business software application would be making the lot of small business easier but XERO is adding to my administrative burden”

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 3273342496

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

6123ea3071cd3ffb65a1ee6b6001ee7e6733377a229fb112c7b21770b892f1c1

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

+RL4LDS9eSd9hoESSz7rEHU21j/+yJwUVBCow8NoF6BDNlNkdit3VUKO/thhndEOFSM7Ul03hAsIcyZEi/sVCg==

Merkle root

a6a2b4c9d7d1eafa4a3ba3595aa08f11c105165de84940ffc059f837c445104f

Merkle path

["61317a0b23a000e5d82e005f6c2cbba02a4f8167594661b1c3f932c767585554","a2c3f501af9fd3987470671d4fae896f57df09ec66f030c02fe9b4d8e71dd6c8","effc05195a90d163c7decc2d2ec55b75da9ef259bea34ab9919a5fd86848ed71","053599615fc866892340175ececda0e90e0e74813eb547a2a07bf719b1f79e71","41995b8a1c2bb7d8a07ba93246662730b87caf3ef5defa95b25baa9398a7b6e8","78415de8b06c8c0190f57d8e5a0bf008081b4ff64cc73b3a18bec4f18513979e","9e47f086df80329b40fe6958f852419cddb12f9061404ddc792e18465fef3671","40cf9251c495106f36daab409b0282ce81af91ad75c363def322907ee3809179","1cd1422c4179bb98a7f5e2b2709511862686cc699a03d1ccdbc7cb535f7bfc65","70be369d93904b6ecaa29f2873db351b331bd7d686f79178e437fb55a6e2e45c","0c60dc2114cc17ff925e98682f2c8418d4fe8637426ebce93ce92087c0eec6f2","9673acbab717662371d7b102fec46b7d359ed0f02d02ce5d555ae75d9c60af2f","95302ff16156d5e277933eeb7a8aae0bcc9cd9ecc1e7491c1aab462ce098abfe","d9b9cce27629bc902030340ceda068fb90d53ddab20309d3b3d8bb3949c170f2"]

Anchored

2026-10-16

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3273342496 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a66d7…

Expected log hash

8a8ea4260f3039926c3342603d4fca7ca9e5c627d841ac1c7142e303a049d0c7 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":"v1792122420855","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:xero","quote":"You would think that a business software application would be making the lot of small business easier but XERO is adding to my administrative burden","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-09-03","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a99ed1d07ac1977c5f5c503","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 (a6a2b4c9d7d1…), 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.