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.

“The interface is pretty clean and doesn’t feel complicated.”

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 3163461995

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

20c420a872555c3aa673330b4b54a5f96ba2e987a0bcae11f8d9f418340daa4e

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

5TQbS5HBODz0Jcder1vKqzilSGsFt2REbfnKtfbbkJYwlxToI5PV2P8WMPEqenRXtP3063bukp8K3yMkaDP3CA==

Merkle root

f2dea3193623a59d18b4d230cf1484689c024b05d34648a4bedfef78c47360d2

Merkle path

["20c3903fee04c86ff53977356c920556a53a1590f94c8cb5268ef1791ef6d4bf","b161daeb1339b0d0b8ed518964d941c40ef831545220c3e6c55402c431cad082","26e6cbc8b6d0f8e2c49ba117a49ba2b51378a80083022ee7f6996e7dabe1f57c","f98d1d374db96a4f2b4d747bd30e5e3039381f48eac78b5eee3229d330a758ff","c3fe0a186efd1909eba26df9776f422ce3aaec4ab5660e3e5fcd453896627d1c","dc71c229456512679e451f20c35f93c016e74a71531b90471fe532adb6985a82","638c6ea9ba55e1295d95da47aee4da203c5fc1cfd4dbb331027bd8de27d71eda","312dbe8f6f08928724829a8c2c5140ba5bd57e7b1b790e0b4304d42dd341c98c","9a45ec56787724ad18baf2ea2f5ca289f2b3ed2b5ea55611d3f0bc4eaa811cb4","42e5de607cebf94670546e69de1702fd1f27fbfcdef470ac1340d03eddaef88f","bcbc47805ee6a1e76081b9860459f94f0a031ad06015d48ed809ade112f8ba2c","ca914761c020d6d4c41f330c4764f3390122af15302d295f2d6dafc486124bde","665774a1192b73721b453ccc4135f39652e90d0c548e0465aa1a009bf210f3d7","c3040d35b4a41a3d91fd7f6d8e1e6868620c896bd0ae8d09b1351d70693bef08","658fda4333b0a975ae51c0ef52c37c157029d897878579fb5ff3ac48198b1bf3"]

Anchored

2026-10-09

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3163461995 · entry 108e9186e8c5677acea0…

Expected log hash

1e385e1035f15f3dbe860bb8f3e4e850b8c2ce2b31edb58c97be626995a4adf2 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":"v1791544610158","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:freshbooks","quote":"The interface is pretty clean and doesn’t feel complicated.","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-08-16","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 (f2dea3193623…), 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.