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Powers of Tau Attestation
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Gibson Ashpool
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USA
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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.
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TAU machine specs:
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Dell Optiplex 330
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Intel Core2duo
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2GB ddr2 Kensington RAM
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80GB HDD
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To start preparing I wiped the HDD with DBAN eraser. Ran memtests via live CD and then installed Lubuntu 16.04.
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Ran following commands via terminal:
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> sudo curl -sSF https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sh
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> sudo apt-get install git
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I downloaded the challenge file on a seperate PC, then transferred the challenge file to the compute PC via USB stick.
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> git clone https://github.com/ebfull/powersoftau
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Plugged in USB stick and copied challenge file into powersoftau directory
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> cd powersoftau
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> cargo run --release --bin compute
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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.
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Compute took almost 2hrs
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Blake 2b
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aa153027 a4ef067b 1a55af49 32cc3edc
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a13f30cf 21060a95 6da09cd7 05e23ff9
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68bb93fe 1022c5ab d45fb6ca 81796b22
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23a57454 8363a070 5e3c8b5b 82f9b443
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Copyed response file to USB stick and transferred to other PC, then uploaded response file to AWS server
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Powered down PC, removed two RAM sticks and HDD. Destroyed RAM and HDD with power tools.
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I then performed full format on USB stick.
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Uploaded images of process to imgur https://imgur.com/a/O7i0L (bonus points if you can spot stealth cat)
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