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 makes this administrative process incredibly smooth”

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 3258673097

Proof data

Record hash (SHA-256)

2185a1ef704d2c5b2e416a7192477b13a9ccdfeb9b0784c99bacc059f45df07d

Signature (Ed25519, base64)

Z8r7oFGgvwBBFgkrhmV/37H5IF1t8u794M9UTPCaIhK2Lqvi17XpFiRF+8HSOW5TqJBlqKouiNt0hILq487zCg==

Merkle root

1e69109d842117168677c2c7aab9689ac78923960f86fb642566271a6ebec358

Merkle path

["217e5309578be7d7d776882dac1561c7f8a03100aea383b6eb00d74be16b3164","99d4d0d24fec63070fd751feb20b062505649753890d2c951401cd22be755726","129cd80c78a724ca034143ee7e0552a9b52d9b70e29dd792c179ee49a7001cd5","4f477e86590320e17b8529a397e889a1ef17fadd7a40dbf36ecb2cad173c8724","f1ed80507795701741018d46ac5a82b3be49ed8ae066d0838e020d40f354d914","a4e873a280950987dfc85948a0f8ce6dae0bcbef09e209fd03a49b4cc2aaa42a","120e22e41b7f9b73522821ba52e190f80335a48d93fe0ceb56070eaf936e71d5","5b571268b0b8e576d8cd9d057424da3dd4e308d2a32110d633a7a2bdd2a25333","e335a4fe9ad113dcfbd9c9c90214d0f47c30c761e71929a17f4dc9822665a1a4","bb094f12ad8bee60309abca679b6f983a5aa44cc3c57042af88426c6fccf13d5","aa8f2c33d97c0ac8dc7d77c1105a2ffd53ba88f60ca9a946d664919a827dd74c","e8ee33453c42c8b9a0e73dbe9a65f0ef421d213e42b0e7964904098c25de97d6","7c33667a483d5fd3b9ed47c00df3203f479cead457d361a57e3e5a90d1401d8b","4db0e65440b78c494263fe6b915a75fbf2b04ea1cd2fed0eeba5f9cb4589aa37"]

Anchored

2026-10-15

Public log entry

search.sigstore.dev, log index 3258673097 · entry 108e9186e8c5677ab832…

Expected log hash

c57cff5f0f2da5f1c24e09823c0cd10c485830bed55f44ffe5864187f8e896d3 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":"v1792033864449","kind":"published-quote","locale":"en","page":"brand:freshbooks","quote":"FreshBooks makes this administrative process incredibly smooth","rating":5,"review_date":"2026-07-14","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 (1e69109d8421…), 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.