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.

“Excellent payment system for local mom and pop small businesses”

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 3139760477

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

bc49f95cabaad74cef8bbb1e51792dc92c83772d2dce102fe2b66db5eea98c89

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

Yd9DxieB+UkIWOqBrnWCFrnd8dmISYcP5JaXAmd1GKGnBNQ7ftS3o4ceZoGh5nJj+z9mrbKw511CtoAlKgacCg==

Merkle root

49133e6803d24035baa1544a5c730db93dbaf832df48f680ca855944337404a2

Merkle path

["bc4761a8e2ef9607ad706fca9305971ca7eac14400bcac2792f872f9b0d095c1","e53e0afb4599c2778afe143526baa1db74c0066f99db87e7493808792f938e93","fc0e8529d8b0125cd5369aa543e5530d1ca7114de187a6c26dccaf6e8dc95650","e8c58c5cc4b72e4c0f82cb0a46ca2bb061402ca695d3c7eceb4a1b491568d515","5b3afa98ebe37df1007eeaaacfb3734c6fadc8ab8c8d779a857ad0d824213292","b713d4bfba7d402d27653cc207c60533df5ddfdb77881837e4deac143c5a7330","d73313dd53f3167b79ab35af9fb5d58132ebf36d41b15ec7b02b6850266259a4","522fd3ab53f6eb3e9b3b9d57bcebc390ab3fdf4f59083a2f8b7020ac0bf96ac1","193b6e8978ef8f9f843946e8acf2687fa827e9169c0e776061d479e7d70f1d4b","a828718a2da4ed439833dec71b5e90046514095bb2b6a760f553da61fd841013","8ec030d5a823e28ad7551f8ab461771924397c872297df7c65bb4ffd112a041a","d0f00d256bab4045c55d5bb8df0237c9c6365345df49bd0bf4481f49fb5be6bf","64f6e44d0d153cb01fbba011c770c85da4e2899c81c01e95d009474dc99d3150","541a456de48928931fac4c28e56562983bd2f8cd0c9306116286df2e2f1c9422","d81f506ca96dea712a8b56759200b270fc625cf496d323ded3475eaafeb2d916"]

Anchored

2026-10-08

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3139760477 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ac88a…

Expected log hash

d54b6e5e20903e9be29e6a5973227ee9b3dbe61bdc0fa6481a5788472cd5976c 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":"v1791428432986","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:wave","quote":"Excellent payment system for local mom and pop small businesses","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-06-05","source":"Trustpilot","source_url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/6a221de6df28343c547d4d17","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 (49133e6803d2…), 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.