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.

“the complexity of simple accounting tasks, such as not being able to enter a JE using a bank account is ridiculous”

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 2904877428

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

6ebe9ea1c9268a7bdda917cadd7994899bad8ac1086fe15878889008bff45930

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

PtkdLxrHtdPsmx6yIoIBgCfOuZbYTI3Rw0VnCXmf6IM3MXVCRfN+uES6mN33YvVoKUm0S9hdb+QP3+Vzzz+eBg==

Merkle root

e299bf38720a5a91bdf63bbc0205245bccdf3432ab1652c69342549658b7a9ef

Merkle path

["6ebd82d6aa47023d94d116ec84b93cb96b9df01eac00d9cd21f70ffc3e994174","d21b42d8e9a3f0295ba303fd2b9a0ecaa3f90b09147a0268dfb7d9cba0497c29","d0dd359abe92c1f7ef57729ed54f3df6795787e5c39da6f366c593df1e4ddf9c","ecd79d4c27d1a2779742308e07ec70818cc61cdbb5ecd644f57d5c0551220fbd","85b2c673a803453efd72b42756394f727b46bb62b5e6d69d01daf3e875d84de8","7fd6723a39ddea92efb5fb28bb3e63ac6f95c80ccae5aa664d3c479f390d31a1","a7d369a204a8bce686ea26ecbfe28066b1ea432a3d3a7c9b740a3fc20c109a5a","b1675024d031a20b86189ec44ccb0c74b6096cf4dbbd4b4ef09b7e9ee2a83bec","fabdd43c889acbd833bae2c49fe16b37270c280665db0329494734331a69954d","221826ca2ea8b11768f85b0046e8101ae8dd3ad33f3db9600ad1f6ffbdf45a84","34889706621385a3b77481342901af55e0c9b40a18b5342ae3351d8fab5cea85","f1529d9d8d0b27350c2152458e297d9406b31a0ee9c50579b35f35e84480df87","3fdd31064998e61048d534909957bf68a4f9bbe35571f6d185756d8acc2a5420","aa4bbeb87247c2797626ab02a549451da6dfce4dcb854a36fdcc601e3e788772","bce5d442c07de6307e5ea8947098e74ce88c2246eda5e5fc1015a6d7519228a8"]

Anchored

2026-09-21

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2904877428 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ab408…

Expected log hash

d020708737f55ccdf49203f373fcbcefe8158cc388605556fbfda3c365de7360 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":"v1789881486272","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:xero/quality/en","quote":"the complexity of simple accounting tasks, such as not being able to enter a JE using a bank account is ridiculous","rating":2,"review_date":"2026-08-18","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a84c73abbb485175de0bfa6","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 (e299bf38720a…), 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.