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 2789279696

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

75e495242a31ccc05fa60d8c72df89e590dd23d4e559ddc53442caf8fb63406a

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

uNPFjhJso49rPLU5zqlsWT/VT4zBK4tmmFCgqYV6/sZTltYmVVIO18qWZNYqfZAmfomFdryN86kgttCmszWeDQ==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["75e34fe97835e3f6fb35dbf2aeff55d672e503ea9c844c2cc59ece4748e33205","d064dd0cca676dc6744e81e7f8b067865c90942da9c06fcf3cba39b2a9e53081","9afc40c319720039edff5b329a0073f42d4c1cc7b127aa4d535cec74ec3c4989","dc3f9eff19c419935f4a401b09e5d65d492f328b5d6035331e48aed659d12e5f","bba1fd50bdaea3e5c2f0f688944e0dfeed57856128b53e5a44b41b29b97f6444","ef716e4813c4620ce1d82ea1fd290cad68aeffed263b9b111987ceeeb846d117","e46c00cee6825ca4e388c0536e29a1722ff5a29046aecfb7d3fe5054e864b25f","214a59080851e2e1b18bd5c1a7a7becd3e5f5da9c6b0e26d0cfae2220ac8c380","e2b42b8f89df276a3e8ebabfe26f43e56aefcd06fcdf7d784129f5d3d0ae62c4","47597394985c7242439420d1bbd0da62963087b5e04e407e71fefe5fc2c865af","af29131d06cf5d38c81cf1b17bfc06e6e5720db0c8182d9166073999fd5b8a6c","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/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 (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.