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 bookkeeper expense is not worth the money”

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)

8f8388916f3717a7bf443c6c2f4f1de23e34c8e81d7b741d138495ae83c71827

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

s1TZE9MPI7MlvnXKPrrFsVnIzssmqkFCr+vm9vUNoWkXwHXd89yMQSyX60RGmad2I4Q1oCqSVF1Xyivuso1IAQ==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["8f852823af01898fd76b13fcae32cfceb953a2f37a68b0dd8fdd4c0abd543a80","05e4a57ae8103f0d4063a56332cf03ccc3929edd46ce739bd4f28e2017dfa783","5fd95577fdb0418e036d98fde29551ddf0114449d1c98fe49c5e1e015c3eb452","244a2408270c79b062943fb05f8d7a2da740c052c4f7b070ac7e5b5d7e68d8d7","a99f453a1a7ddd51ae0fd72f6b15021f4f7f9173935266576ee116c158990bff","8f5f6cec171acbc78c4230358ca4bd5212dd16d535f8699e9f7b6b4a1fc82aa7","fd77617f201cbbadca15b6d71cc7b1277a4aa39b5f0933769a206eb9a5b7f592","8578cd6f17c9334e2c6bd1f38eedd749a9303649a34ed71604430f2a3d45f6ae","0cb5a54ef326cc7c8442764e3c4d53fe9b3f4e61c6314447c25f723c1f7c34a2","24cca21608d3145f5f7c3708abc1d7681b770439930263079b5a75b070cac0b0","ec5d08312c4faca63dc7627be1ba2a3702a2b0fd2f002f14f7d74685eb44c040","ed5206c0018c25fc911a5b83d48a4b07edf1ca07ade25d7e56162349167c269c","6772a6b2cfb742f4baa103e424787f6ab6a8cbdfc294db886f1451f7c9752077","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:wave/price/en","quote":"the bookkeeper expense is not worth the money","rating":2,"review_date":"2026-05-21","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a0f379fcda1c8af8200adc1","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.