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.

“he guided me through the set up process for Xero”

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)

a6071765993b8cdb544c290fa6c380bb69154df52d167484998a89655d5fa131

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

itrMKUUKg3gFPWmES0cHnmim/VP2jwrTW7ryR6CbamycXgDgzSXtMhOulsnDKP3s1R5LJwfjoYJjZ0qQjwiNAg==

Merkle root

97eb1062a862b99998bef0a84476eb3c3812bb77c2cb927f4fd2933b59da9e3d

Merkle path

["a6072fe17072b70e9f2a5ea32d78e7ac1bfe5f44fc22607b8960fcb90342be6d","56928a0eb118b832f9f1c6d5ae52df845da9313efeeaddcaaab5eb70d34bebf5","50ed6b586451eb7108662b72f243b5c5d426dcda65b1b24d9970d6abf75ba0ab","843d74ac8e82387bd6068487c33fc6f8064cc497c3c787a78367869a985f392a","bf19c06228635f50b4ca9376e3ca2655be312c16c75999c1ef9822c64400edb5","5b30bcd74d83c277a3adeabbc958773bccb32dd137ac397664a7938049328107","e768f62920b5ea4654e80c672adcdd665086b82af94f2dd5be259d37dfae4ad1","16d39f081284f8828352e7486abaaa88ea8d6e4f0a312e74cd9adb1dd6369427","f2198bd0252e6aa68ed8798fffc6efb2ba381c1e8589b10eec4b011a298060ad","d8a1b8859b7db53d125b61151442a570849af3ffab751ddf446527623b513b22","287617fd502c0aa03656ebe965c0e480dafb208e3433d9b96ae1ed850f0ffa6f","f331b9b7b0f816973fc5999e2ac6d8d10c8908961884acb0adfaef58ea6e81a0","054c6c39d1f97397366b9a1b659a373f0607ed1b3f28fe998d444aa71461fa00","fb01c9b29e184d558c43a512ba05af475ec20eceeace4dde365559da92299892","46bcfbc656e0e2a380a8a94cdc0be3d8b4c668e5f9e54a10ba396a45b371339b"]

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/ordering/en","quote":"he guided me through the set up process for Xero","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-08-21","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a8851fe65c8b47506d60173","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.