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 switched to Xero from QuickBooks recently”

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 3102753131

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

a7661b000741af94fc73ae915408af2db5a7184b0c5c6a2451ee1f718bc92a25

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

qPL1V+1sgExZ+h3E3ikHgNXtQaALKnbklD750N+sOmklZVGwLi2dINZFO+0hL+UyaHWey7nocnmQo7FNW/H1Cg==

Merkle root

92de3fc6370869ec6c1d0482494ff1816d45e719fbf27ec8d8d02933c2b7c658

Merkle path

["a762b2fca06a6ae9435f9997270a352e8306129ba71bbd3ad08b15c5902c109b","57b9193deeaf73629732564307a5e155e986455925536d181b8e4b13ac1f1487","ee52736b5c00c698201126d329b42f63578f57b565ac4e9e9d7c4dfdab46d538","890d7e7f9e4ec83b229945d84c020c5cb89803167dd369f1d5abcfacc7f5d26f","b5e02ca87b625b25b85c1daa38a11434f7ff7da461f2065df12198949ad7a4bc","9f3f2f96866e4f48b1797b8e72e8de4935f0b374d7ad3900460db6283985973a","d6859dc2a412577398ad1ed36c141c5ea480068bf07ed0f32b07e08c96f3fccc","2189748228be2331a7b11380b57ef0749f8f2231f1cbd811b52718039bcab00e","0949355cce2f6f9e9dfe4791560eed85dcb58e67c6f59bec065e931432e3999a","1d6b8cf396bcbe1ea8ab0ab6ce2381a3e3141eb7afb2d7ab34a5ae4c3698e103","15bdaa7d977141d7c60a463e42ff4c8adc376495cac27f42da5872c060bbe582","6465ba4ce9ef9551dc865bdbb93d128ef719afaec6ad6a63fa7c0e5b37a3d418","eaec115b999ce4f56ac9da9af02e783a3380be0a3b796355a5f877302796ed54","a7351db54bb74f5f5ac28186d9fd23b3f96813c66df528665fc553ab2f8966d7","c3a054d0149b6ba893c9f6835a95f324a05e1406f9665c11f96203fe902ebfba"]

Anchored

2026-10-06

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3102753131 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a9761…

Expected log hash

5cca28352ab3a467a358005e8b17999e96a5be0f2e71c2152bf575d4cd8c238a 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":"v1791264491480","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"theme:xero/returns/en","quote":"I switched to Xero from QuickBooks recently","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-08-07","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a75b96278ef28a253fa688d","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 (92de3fc63708…), 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.