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.

“I switched to Xero from QuickBooks recently”

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)

6fe01906cb39a55051cab35e1adab0fbc96431905668c8f96497a3bbfd76a698

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

oalth1lHUh9sDCwww1n2wYeDLEea5PHbKBK5HCm9RTjDdwiGT4JD72Tv5vnENICQCwdoJFfGrPWASgRdQLXpDg==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["6fdf791301c6f6f17e737387f4b964e88a3ff8f1bebad321b59d7c2967f61ccc","f38f12ea9cd1859d85148f5041fcb1f38679c75cc6a66c22da081ef70b1a5303","eddbaccaa7a3e31c325ae52f4020046f0359a73c6f1270732763f8dfaf037a76","3cdc1c0083ea31cfb0a0e222dc94431e4f7eea072f43bdb34166320ee2953cbb","e49bf9d0fbc114ccde48918d62b164d9e12e2e1de30300fe19df808cfc22586f","dbadc2b27e604ac95a79ed7c26895e8150925e24f92db1ebb34e2c3766ead818","1aa7a31b6c44e2ea90976d38bd3c31922d314fe209a5280c181bb18b26c3c3f0","f3db81f41cf69db4fe8dacdfc3920ccaeeb5e935122462fa1942f99511cda718","11493506c81e89c9145f95cc3d5a5663f327503d1401b28f95af941476422e85","6025bb34265d6164508e73f9e4fbe5fde5e838d5d0fe5ff539c4e424d3d616fb","a6ba2320bebdb525294e32051203a108db199dafa5e32fdd427ef9ada1bf92a4","cc930d9a14ea152753caf04b31f0e79f0b00ba63dec8c58c38ded3f85cfd7dad","66d13e8b5300f6cf7ae49f9f9692863758845bb98773f7a2bbb28032eed5ad1c","90e3c3ed08ff9f4dee6683cf95bfff311f4715cac07e97ca75ea5b9bcf13efe4","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":"I switched to Xero from QuickBooks recently","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-08-07","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a75b96278ef28a253fa688d","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.