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.

“helping us to manage our finances from sending our invoices for collecting payments”

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 3178115911

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

1ec8206e63aa92ccddfad84f9ea48ffb2e4e4ec2b9923dfc1dc573b47ccff61f

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

G2LEpnr4U84VOm21UWNErwSnAUv+4G1dlHek4NyKdeG5EfEM2vALE3j9t0MFwi9Giz8tT5fadD3Xwmn/rZojAA==

Merkle root

afb9ffbb4b4e88017e1c868247f919ebcfe69f09127d391e7daa08019eb2b63b

Merkle path

["1ece335161ddb1d314aaed8d0da3859568ad1f95cdb82a9bae44c52ef0d2c73b","9874130f40faf94bbd93f19a08674795cac9752fe02125301b30f6b70ee62303","3b79cc9fef5e32fbff867f45fb5a2b3c5a9d6fae4345502a15c9b4b07fdb9fd4","f915ef10a3af9c9facac148800e708ec4cd1ea01001afc95477873bc043b3ace","d91c0824c8eb6fbfdee23c3dcfcca177403b8b479cb226ecdd9b3941ca9135af","a4a664ff984c7e8938a2a4e98a5a80f49c32409b792f5e62ea25f3de66483570","03a1f9d6b8f2b0a0a6f37390c4f7bb5a09312a446fd7641c330ea0bacc08eec1","8a2e6d38e0aa28bd4711ddfe8472f234d1af747796e3348b02db226bb0734d8d","27974da074b13f50796bf86f6d74f1b32f000cb477625fe75304ab288ad80fc9","87611064aac4cca94813683f4e2a740ad27bc7fe1a1802142057f1f94de0e5d8","2dd3f4cc0ce148d7d51c1e3bfe2d48062a5fd704540a9bfdd861a1055ca54f17","ec08854347577678bea6aee9937042bc6beae2ec019209b55d90c01fe9714518","09648cb4275ce9eb9f26709778da1b3653a6ea84465537d5f6fe5c1b17d3cea0","15ecb20ce6559654c94b8b858c027c014996a92eb19771813db0b794d6214fb6","72bbc4ee0a973113b1d556f76d02fea2c4704794a0d313a96e49ff7b6174dec2"]

Anchored

2026-10-10

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3178115911 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a2bba…

Expected log hash

a144ffc32dfaa9fe45b4895b7f4c17280667152868dd8de227ca2811c60c870f 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":"v1791604579182","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:freshbooks","quote":"helping us to manage our finances from sending our invoices for collecting payments","rating":5,"review_date":"2025-06-26","source":"Capterra","source_url":"https://www.capterra.com/p/142390/FreshBooks/reviews/","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 (afb9ffbb4b4e…), 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.