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.

“Freshbooks is a perfect fit for your small business”

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 3138947147

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

20c43c79b4ae834ddeb04aacf09d9d371cdaa243b0dfb1a071089a2c8123d163

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

WOkp1HYqy/Qak3bltl9+nZo3kzzos4vdqfPRWgx2s+aa2fuzJSM33OqEQw7coFkkjvZ6krv/4yCbbLI14DGdBw==

Merkle root

1b26d1b85473caad1868633ec4c931eb970e81199eea87926818f3f1753af37b

Merkle path

["20c5353e70bdd90ac23fd6255fbf2fdde72c8302474f9925ac129aa5c851e9b5","4845688c41d6e359985582aca8af990773d44033c59532b08121ec2cbf3c0271","d28edbc4bb180dda27c73ebe7bc7fbc92fadb1800d055c570fe8b8d0b8480b7a","7210c0d895647a3ecde380034d13dea1455b610240c39b888d1f254ddcff1200","4699020a75283dd8f5c9a9fafb306a1191ea368a32ef29f2ec772b99433e0266","eea07cf726e30c86b6ddc12ec36c98d3760de0c475b82839076f368ca29d24b9","bced49359b4721f9095f1b1bbba4e62819c7bc9e5c1252e21ab44ae17de5927a","dad8d25e88bd715df74f45b9b464f855c47a79228bfc777ce8e5675f077fd5d0","52ed53627b39c28e7a671b4da190f51799c6fc8a541dac3e1e6fd0562f5a7972","7c1dfe3771f0900539245fb3def65b194ea45faf7ddca10b6223c95c6e63e345","2ee8fdd9f4f407e526864a8ba3702d86f1097bb26b89614052b4ded4db8d4678","3e245e6d740eb81c4f09792f11d7fdad46833a72e13bd136ecc679eef2e69b63","0a715bd63526388883fdeb099e9129563e4c22e6bfb87e7eb3c16d297d4dcf78","a52caabaaff23a9dd211857be614b6dbb651e724ed1f53485e9621733590c1c2","06054c91b82ccf7b99bb6b4fcb7c60afa97f93295e6829b75e5bf1efe9493e63"]

Anchored

2026-10-08

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3138947147 · entry 108e9186e8c5677a2712…

Expected log hash

8f66b765b7efcb11dcdcf57b81c46ed3317a5895f5b870638e23b76f1efbb2d5 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":"v1791425549743","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:freshbooks","quote":"Freshbooks is a perfect fit for your small business","rating":4,"review_date":"2025-07-29","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 (1b26d1b85473…), 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.