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 3:56 PM, Gabe Ortiz via zapps-wg <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Powers of Tau Attestation by Gabe Ortiz (@signalnine) > ================================= > > Round: 48 > Date: 2018-02-01 > Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA > Commit version: d47a1d3d1f007063cbcc35f1ab902601a8b3bd91 > > SHA256 challenge file: > 35b60456f4d4a17ceefb1acfd0371d7134789319649cfd6bf77aca35d2824950 > > Blake2b response file: > The BLAKE2b hash of `./response` is: > 7c220a51 5804a837 d314eb18 f861198f > e1bff8e0 f3e4018f 68a6b2c6 8a4bc89b > 59a80446 52cc2602 4c3f72f9 32730700 > 1bff8df0 429da619 70d6f587 72629732 > > > Methodology > ========= > > The hardware used was a mid-2011 MacBook Air running OS X 10.11.6. WiFi and > Bluetooth were disabled and the MAC address of the WiFi adapter was blocked > at my router. I transferred the challenge file via USB drive. I first > attempted to use Filippo Valsorda’s golang implementation but ran into an > issue where it was throwing an error, “Failed to read the challenge: point > is compressed.” So, I ran the standard Rust implementation instead. > Additional entropy was produced via a USB-connected keyboard. I again > transferred the response and response hash via a USB drive to my > network-connected laptop for upload. The MacBook Air and the USB drive used > to do the compute was then destroyed. > > Just for fun, here’s an imgur album of the laptop destruction (yes, we made > sure to avoid damage to the battery cells): > https://imgur.com/a/IkG3i > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE2eDG1CCBN16+WtTSC6+LqJ7Wy2QFAlpzmksACgkQC6+LqJ7W > y2SkYQ/+OlYd79nl1EX6St7dgvbJvb2lZbP1qYG2dEdJsTY0yTILREPLwOfOlopJ > DOm7hn2SGbi7FUe2XIMc07bi+shvH3h8mpKnSt9HYw/KtwAmgqt9o0DpbMNibOyw > 8q9rDtmbgV8/Hg9GBDaR0V+ocy/uObdLehxb3zsm2gLToTOj4sEM75nje2zbhVSd > +F/UN7qYNq5DwUIA/rqqPAA4EVaOa6zan8h803fIeokTNkw7bcIDiJkdbcZh8fko > qcVEnRdhf4t0OS2ZIyGGQ8YU/EUhu8e1xvGj8aKZ+uzarMV6lgef7yOosMWbnjkh > JHqEZnBXqqWGW4uslE8Flh68CmKAa7Z8gtnSOxfrIDCwN7IMM1bQzAI45yydLYCB > 1rjJndasmmxkP+kzzAz0ixP6nEiMOnsNZibqTdi5kQjvytKQwm/viVeuAE5d24cM > JBfBArbsug3ZvAKSgwuaboIC77/qhZYqYxxfGiM91g9KQsFrg7SXYpH3cf806JID > RAHT/6z1M7RegjZL74BH74QB6tb2pVIDqDDnY9wp1Lj8PeiGx2u5+eiW71NYAX5h > GtWThZrd5yk6+EBzsyIeRnPmf4oaw/Y0jMs8qePVHcaXDiWHAdwIg2lwmVfqZx80 > lR5mSBmiV0tDX14SDgbQuONAqFtop102QZkawvR4ZbYPNpf/Jjc= > =EmVb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
