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 have been a 30 year quickbooks user”

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 3140838741

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

9dddcc19806ae6481f296488be1846b03fb965daca944d77954cdebf207a7091

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

SCVjWmcYtW54oWVSIVHUMJvlpuy/oTdD5yILBBxAZbcD1yeJ76D7DJSfCBs3EWXbI7KYOunCiv3nYw6YGNu1DQ==

Merkle root

68ee5f8618d9ce1aa33f2cb5b6f3145b5f909a3c35a03ccc3d10e979b2f81082

Merkle path

["9de68a6a290d24ecf4b8fce5c6c6ac29a24d386063610b976def0fcb3f6758c4","7cc5e07d5d9051927acc5069a528d12cb8345e603ffa7192c964c275f3ef29b5","bd7b5cb9bc867a4dc272dd19713eda5fb3bafe422666f535637e654deb5f6acf","74f5edeb6d9165cfd3c54a502ab53d937899fcc77eb5cbb2cc43a91eb9b18109","b60a7ac0deba81d0b631c2521536264802d7b6cbaf2df36f558bc60beff4364f","d17744b9d403eb93d0e3fa9edb4b0fec3fc21e7ac98d822d4203f5d5fcb33e90","795a4af0cd2275cbff1555ad9d7923de39f9aaea2d34f5a518a4b1a0dd970716","6cb3b38c136ba7b7daff32c540dcef6cf1e53b1265e0a44a15caf499508e6ca6","5f1282f95275f84b85f0ca4cec1cd28e13ca6b77f39910f49bc9ae40382e8c0a","2ff4810b5cb50c38f3fdbcf8c4fc99c200f16e299bb1745638ddaa0b2b594817","9a44026153c1318f61a9285f0de2776d96a8fcbf6ce7f83af3a53fd6efaaf260","d185783a81c7716a5a5a44729493173b27d91ddb6e267aba0a71a1eaeec19f52","5a596d48ba69503b90d023ad33a47e928bac9c6ec029bb6fb09b632e68ef85aa","d4477c34f5adddf1a37719c473b5e22e5d24c5bd237b4d0a607b953cc77a4964","418554fa0ebde54d6cdcc03145c7126505ed96d3734e8e7ae56dc0dfd8ca0a2e"]

Anchored

2026-10-08

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3140838741 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a4791…

Expected log hash

ca4949400cf2d29b49789563ea2e672fc73762380548d6fd65398e40c0d98728 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":"v1791433229105","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:wave","quote":"I have been a 30 year quickbooks user","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-05-20","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a0deb7d9d97cad26814a023","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 (68ee5f8618d9…), 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.