-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Powers of Tau Attestation
Gibson Ashpool USA Purchased four core2duo PC's with cash from someone on Craigslist over a year ago for another project but they have been collecting dust for months now so figured they are good candidates for powers of tau. TAU machine specs: Dell Optiplex 330 Intel Core2duo 2GB ddr2 Kensington RAM 80GB HDD To start preparing I wiped the HDD with DBAN eraser. Ran memtests via live CD and then installed Lubuntu 16.04. Ran following commands via terminal: > sudo curl -sSF https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sh > sudo apt-get install git I downloaded the challenge file on a seperate PC, then transferred the challenge file to the compute PC via USB stick. > git clone https://github.com/ebfull/powersoftau Plugged in USB stick and copied challenge file into powersoftau directory > cd powersoftau > cargo run --release --bin compute It ran for a short time then when prompted for entropy, added long random string of text. I then asked my daughter to enter random keys while I didnt look, to which she replied "Really? Just press the keys?" and I replied "Press as many as you want, just dont press the enter key" she then pressed random keys for about 15 seconds and when she was done I instructed her to hit the enter key. I then turned back to the terminal to see "reading challenge into memory, Computing, this could take awhile" in the terminal. It was getting late so I put her to bed, grabbed a beer and watched TV, checking back every 15mins or so. Compute took almost 2hrs Blake 2b aa153027 a4ef067b 1a55af49 32cc3edc a13f30cf 21060a95 6da09cd7 05e23ff9 68bb93fe 1022c5ab d45fb6ca 81796b22 23a57454 8363a070 5e3c8b5b 82f9b443 Copyed response file to USB stick and transferred to other PC, then uploaded response file to AWS server Powered down PC, removed two RAM sticks and HDD. Destroyed RAM and HDD with power tools. I then performed full format on USB stick. Uploaded images of process to imgur https://imgur.com/a/O7i0L (bonus points if you can spot stealth cat) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJaLVOmAAoJED9Aa1Fb7jDljWIH/jo2UaiVHbzJ4LwE1keY1gGt pcUeGoWBgCR/dHvgJJmOP/GQp563lMH59yrTOe3V1aU+winOep1+LhCwgh2RPfAK J3wq1VVM1yxvMXg9X2PmP7slUMyWPoY6np+MxR1s+AXv1V4yiay3c2BkvvXwNSxe 2VSZQIkuyPKUuAUr00OqmNcWha2P0uxlAC7oyy3m4NMOrw6evNSAItTUM3ARHK10 n3ABGLjF8QhiCev9z/ooyi90PiFATgzr1aI5tsUwmoFVAY9bWBu6iJSojOrukex6 22Co7nr1gZDspOJclDmrTkSlNZf2iPI9ATfFwCLoS0riAI27blO+uN9KAztrfbs= =bSWH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
