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.

“We now have to spend over $50 000 in the Supreme Court to regain access”

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 2991846025

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

986c6671b033fd322e641fa7f69bfd875c2d5ac3c97ade7f617496962f36e04f

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

dM/dHgVZ5aKQebMIO/5gSCwH2GPrncfbyU39KSI5lMyyM6YPLieKJ9v0I401VwhQEA7JB3L8bb03AJWi4cmTDw==

Merkle root

d312d00ed6ab2beb6e18f20d8087ad3474eb8b04b26d5ad949e9237bf3ca4c52

Merkle path

["986a5b64bb5662cac76479269b66ae13116d715b1743984f3d94b4db751a0d67","cd7f5b222a1af81385dba4c9c72b7926009103df5a512847d2308ab478736fc4","4364f5acf34cb0014f9a32d3af432b24b2d03f8501615a18db33cccbaa5839ba","e960ba15d90e93a465dcdc63751c19199d1b58852bd4a1ab27b32f830487e543","a2623e152356b6d9dfa7d9124587f690141e5bdd02e033aeb647f473c60a1dde","4c7c0923d4bbaa2cc435d81d4b523b95f42c5f55637ccfb1ca66ef9c33a60f99","238fa8682def8550550bbd8ea7bafc7f1beb5293aaa16c6792accd273a0262bb","522b03fb5bfbb1f4e605a8130f1ae5a91778c2df57c7df8c8c19dd6657e56e71","201d70089b7689404243a540bbf57448c6ea279120704168aaced680ba9c02cc","08097eca6003c4e60f58322b3ed536942264cb9263e9eed777ea9df4a53c3f1c","87aa6b906ad4e0c4e29e00f4e4797a20f36c35b790689a19092061cd2114a5e9","3148008b4ffec0feb983213153713093f145da8d77c265256e78d5aa2604035b","5ee45a9576409ffb8d801d5d47338bed83678e9a8a2fe9972d7225dc319a088a","ac3e8eb9a4dcd818facade9f7856ab850324ee2662bf990758158396deb094a5","799c0ef4fcc26840c2a1a2c1ea34f7ce94ca70a3893bbb37f42757477cf242fc"]

Anchored

2026-09-29

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 2991846025 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a5f08…

Expected log hash

321e41cd200068478c5cf6f353f00dbd75153d3d8a640e241b1a6e8e4f8ac2ea 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":"v1790574513694","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:xero/returns/en","quote":"We now have to spend over $50 000 in the Supreme Court to regain access","rating":1,"review_date":"2026-07-10","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a503f66b660756a9cc9b225","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 (d312d00ed6ab…), 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.