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.

“Stripe took around $3,000 from my bank account”

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 2544236959

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

982a75ae035e18e6a05dac41d1ef0ad47fc3e1011f0c856af11e4c3450da4914

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

+CVNZWdl9ugkSRbFRXm67ORw32N2MbRvULn/fYFqOTTE2F7s84iGjeN/zSxk30g42Y7moqj77CpjQ0mJgUxTAg==

Merkle root

cc942239c46f13b1af6cdba0960a24a6cb62e7a7a462aae1e8126c0182dbffc3

Merkle path

["982ba596d07ac4be69345d597fec64f2cb7802a08b6d6fdab2a75d673fc98596","ea02cf77d7ac22603c72659824339eb672a07204c9e744beb739acce4b5c0e44","a35c68313a512d83c660bf2811fbd7b3a495aea8d8e22131c4b403fae9ded9f3","d159167078a06015b0636cb176631dc4a4fa6ab02265bebc9857de406464be7f","074ee9218a496834a3cdce7e7f771ef5573df88c00fb001a42adbee640d58934","ee9f98a7a58e194c131719f5f4499e871b02acd1d30897996f05bc7f6b6df5a2","fa7eb601b2b36088173a509a166ecd5e071f2050614c5f62da3a6338f933c823","e70154d76d096e24fa54f706aec0117156231f2707ee28e46703e58b5325a932","5a3201d430662141d518641d92d3e7864b94c2651687805426affda933a47f34","5d7b21506b41e3ca37afd6c68a072c971e5d52e28f808d74a1ccfa781ae48eaf","d4d4f8a7dfa2424e80ec0d44964f3373073fe907802a01db3da617612c6cc518","2087f1457331087a09d26542a2eeff2f7ba6c6defe2a4d5a6513941cf1a33537","72b50fa4c81ff112c2c888ce3a6c0a9eecaaa17d0fb6234aa2344d0f3f85c205","9a1346831517d7bfe15c9cafe704fcdd7e5320eb2bcb608a630afaaba7d67d2d","f25e568e6bd90a5619f6d6d975016290629a8afed06b80200730e4e12fb2d1bc"]

Anchored

2026-08-21

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2544236959 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a0341…

Expected log hash

c82e13ba2a716d66def44df55ff50c2e9db35da204570a7fd5650a8bc2702db2 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":"v1787290890795","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:stripe","quote":"Stripe took around $3,000 from my bank account","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-08-20","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a877646d5cdb93ea3656357","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 (cc942239c46f…), 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.