Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of tau

On 27 Mar 2018, at 01:06, Innovative Inventor wrote: > I was unaware that I could join the powers of tau after March 20th. I was told > on the zcash community chat that they were no longer accepting new > participants. I would love to help out here if someone could tell me how. Just to clarify a

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

I'm attaching an OpenTimestamps receipt for my attestation. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:51 AM Devrandom wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > # Powers of Tau Attestation > > Author: devrandom > Date: 12 March 2018 > > Notes: > > * Hardware is

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 My part of Powers of Tau was performed on a Penguin Adelie GNU / Linux Laptop by Think Penguin. Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU OS: Debian GNU/Linux 9.3 (stretch) Downloaded the challenge file and compiled the Go implementation. Then I

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Response

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 10:25 PM Chase Roberts wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > My response BLAKE2b. > > f8111d44 6841d376 5ef01319 14ab1007 > 779961a6 66998b1d ad63edbe c0123ba6 > b2581e69 936fc4c9 0ff51211 d5ff7cd0 > 85425f38 d8752ec2 25447c25

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

Verified, thanks! Where might one find your PGP public key so that they can check your signature? Jason > On 22 Feb 2018, at 20:49, Troy Stackhouse via zapps-wg > wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > Powers of Tau Attestation by

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

> On 17 Feb 2018, at 19:03, Kobi Gurkan wrote: > > How awful would it be with RPi 3 and microSD for swap? Good point. Someone should do a test run and report back! -- Jason Davies, https://powersoftau.plutomonkey.com/

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Jason Davies wrote: > I've verified your uploaded response, thank you! > > I found your Twitter attestation: > https://twitter.com/alokmenghrajani/status/963212918505447424 > > Would you mind posting a link to your co-worker's? My

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

I've verified your uploaded response, thank you! I found your Twitter attestation: https://twitter.com/alokmenghrajani/status/963212918505447424 Would you mind posting a link to your co-worker's? > On 13 Feb 2018, at 00:45, Alok Menghrajani via zapps-wg >

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau (Joseph Tobin)

Thanks Joe! For the record -- your first email was signed correctly (content-type "multipart/signed") but I wasn't able to verify the signature without knowing your public key. Your follow-up email included a link to your public key as well as a signed plaintext message, which was slightly

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau (Joseph Tobin)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 There was a mistake with PGP in the original message. Repeated below. Hi Everyone! Thank you for the opportunity to participate! Date: 2018-2-11 Name: Joseph Tobin Location: New Jersey, USA Response (blake2b): 2ddd4358 b124100d 724e62a0

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

Excellent! Verified it. Adding to transcript now. Sean On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Mark Giannullo via zapps-wg wrote: > I completed the challenge using Filippo's golang implementation: > https://github.com/FiloSottile/powersoftau > > The BLAKE2b hash of

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation by Gսѕtavо Frеdегіc೦

Thanks Gustavo! I've entered this into the transcript. Sean On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:12 PM, Gustavo Frederico via zapps-wg wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Powers of Tau Attestation by Gսѕtavо Frеdегіc೦ > -

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation 48

Awesome job, thank you so much. :) By the way, the challenge file that Gabe used is located here: https://powersoftau-transcript.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/challenge.48 I'd be curious to see why Filippo's Go code can't deserialize it. Maybe a platform specific bug? Sean On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

Thanks for publishing the go implementation. Awesome to have another implementation to choose from. I will take a look at your repository. @Sean, I'd love to participate anytime next week. I'm available every mon-fri 9am-2pm EST. On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Andrew Miller via zapps-wg <

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

That's outstanding, thanks! The independent Go-language implementation of the compute node is an amazing bonus contribution. I'd love to learn more about this project. I'll ask questions in the github repo. Cheers, On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Filippo Valsorda via zapps-wg <

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

This is excellent! I'm so impressed. I've added this to the transcript. Thanks, Sean On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:54 PM, Filippo Valsorda via zapps-wg wrote: > The BLAKE2b hash of `./response` is: > 7b55c0f5 68a8b4df 2ca14085 2e816df2 > b9a2dafe

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

The BLAKE2b hash of `./response` is: 7b55c0f5 68a8b4df 2ca14085 2e816df2 b9a2dafe 50b2c5e2 5e6c9b6a df239de0 223a9866 aba481a8 436fbd42 04a2c48a 43725d94 2de47b23 c10c5e87 38fd6467 The main feature of this contribution is that it was computed with an independent

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

done uploading to s3 in a moment. >> 9af2153b5d0f96689f79049337de1fb328873f5f771adef1adf0486e4904 >> b28d96fe602c8866f42e8047ce3bdafe2f9e73c7d2cd1b0c023d3831a46242bd6fc9 >> >> Long story short: >> - Contributor: Ryan Pierce and Andrew Miller >> - Isolation: 3,000

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

eup and video to follow! (Note: all appropriate aviation > and radiation regulations were followed to a tee) > > -- > Andrew Miller > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > From: Sean Bowe [s...@z.cash] > Sent: Wednesday, Januar

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

Thanks for the explanation Sean. Indeed it's better to hide it then for next participants, good catch Daira! On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Sean Bowe wrote: > There are potentially few useful entropy sources on an isolated system > with its peripherals removed that has just

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

> Andrew Miller > University of > Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > > From: Sean Bowe [s...@z.cash] > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 10:22 PM > > To: Miller, Andrew > Cc: Zapps wg > Subject: Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau >

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

nesday, January 17, 2018 10:22 PM > To: Miller, Andrew > Cc: Zapps wg > Subject: Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau > > It does interfere with someone, but we could make it work Saturday > morning if you don't expect it to take longer than the morning. > > Sean > > On Wed, Jan

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

From: Sean Bowe [s...@z.cash] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 10:22 PM To: Miller, Andrew Cc: Zapps wg Subject: Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau It does interfere with someone, but we could make it work Saturday morning if you don't expect it to take longer than the morning. Sean

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

On 18/01/18 13:46, Bastien Teinturier via zapps-wg wrote: > Powers of Tau Attestation Notice that PowersOfTau_2.jpg leaks the additional entropy provided to the computation. That's ok, it uses operating system entropy as well; just noting that future participants might want to avoid that. --

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau participation request

Sounds good! I'll be in touch. Sean On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:47 AM, Gabe Ortiz via zapps-wg wrote: > Hi, I’d like to participate. I can go anytime next week between 9am and 5pm > MST. > > -Gabe

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

This is great! I've entered it into the transcript. Thanks! Sean On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 6:46 AM, Bastien Teinturier via zapps-wg < zapps...@lists.z.cash.foundation> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Powers of Tau Attestation > > >

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau

It does interfere with someone, but we could make it work Saturday morning if you don't expect it to take longer than the morning. Sean On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:18 PM, Andrew Miller via zapps-wg wrote: > Greetings everyone, >I have a good one planned. But

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Round 38 Attestation

Thank you! Another fun attestation. :) Sean On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Ryan Close via zapps-wg wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Powers of Tau Attestation > = > > Round: 38 > Date: 2018-1-17 > Name:

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau participation

Cool, we'll get you in likely early next month then. Sean On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Jan Jancar via zapps-wg wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to participate in the Powers of Tau ceremony. I have a > compute node ready, am in the UTC +2 timezone, and

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Contribution

I added this to the transcript, thank you! :) Sean On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:09 AM, James Prestwich via zapps-wg wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > I've finshed running the powers of tau contriubtion, and uploaded the > response. > >

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau participation + zk proof question

10-20s proving time is more than fast enough for me. I'm going to dig through the gadgetlibs to get a feel for what it'd take to implement this, but it's been a long time since my last algebra class. On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:06 PM Andrew Miller wrote: > Yeah! It's 2018

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau participation + zk proof question

This is about the point where my math and libsnark knowledge runs out :) My usecase is specifically cryptocurrency related, so I'm mostly interested in curves that are used by cryptocurrency signature algorithms. E.g. secp256k1 (Bitcoin and its kids), ed25519 (Sia, Stellar, and a few others).

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau participation + zk proof question

Thank you so much for expressing your question in Camenisch-Stadler notation! That makes it very clear what you're going for. What hash function H do you have in mind, would SHA2 work? Also what group G do you have in mind, secp256k1? If so, I do not know of any existing implementation of

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau contribution

> especially since it takes two minutes to Google for the official > information. > > -------- Original Message ---- > Subject: Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau contribution > Local Time: January 3, 2018 12:45 AM > UTC Time: January 3, 2018 12:45 AM > From: zapps...@lists.

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau contribution

Not to hijack the thread, but I've asked how to contribute and was not given an answer. On 1/2/2018 3:12 PM, Tony Arcieri via zapps-wg wrote: I have finished running Powers of Tau. Here is the output: The BLAKE2b hash of `./response` is: d129d960 a645c735 ec52fc80 91f081d1 a6e4ff78 90e4fa55

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau contribution

Great! I've verified it and I'm entering it in the transcript now. It is totally okay if you don't want to use GPG, and this is acceptable. Thanks! Sean On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Tony Arcieri via zapps-wg wrote: > I have finished running Powers of Tau.

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Attestation

Thanks! Excellent job. > In an effort to overwrite the RAM and run out the battery, I started two > instances of `cargo test`. Clever. :) Sean On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Adam Nagel via zapps-wg wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Ceremony Proposal

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA512Powers of Tau Operational writeup=Round: 7Date: 2017-11-16Name: Eric L. StrombergLocation: San Francisco area, USChallenge:

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Ceremony Proposal

Hi all, here's my report: Powers of Tau Operational Writeup = Round: 3 Date: 2017-11-12 Name: Jared Tobin Location: Auckland, NZ Challenge:

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Ceremony Proposal

Kobi Gurkan (from QED-it) wishes to go after cody. I'll double-check later. On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 4:12 AM, cody burns wrote: > I will go after the unnamed party. > > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 3:21 AM Sean Bowe via zapps-wg > wrote: >>

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Ceremony Proposal

I will go after the unnamed party. On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 3:21 AM Sean Bowe via zapps-wg wrote: > All is verified and mirrored so far! Thanks! > > I've invited someone else to be next, but I'm not sure if they wanted > me to identify them publicly before they

Re: [zapps-wg] Powers of Tau Ceremony Proposal

Hi all, Here is my report: Powers of Tau Operational Writeup = Round: 2 Date: 2017-11-10 Name: Jason Davies Location: London, UK Challenge: