diff --git a/create-attributable-archive.sh b/create-attributable-archive.sh
index 63dc18d..dba5c16 100755
--- a/create-attributable-archive.sh
+++ b/create-attributable-archive.sh
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ unset attribution_passphrase_check
 } | sha512sum | awk '{print $1}' > "$out_dir/attribution.sha512"
 
 printf "sanity checking: changing working directory to $out_dir"
-cd out
+cd "$out_dir"
 checkcode $?
 printf "sanity checking: verification"
 bash verify-everything.sh
diff --git a/out/.592 b/out/.592
deleted file mode 100644
index 0cf5a77..0000000
Binary files a/out/.592 and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/out/anonymous_signer b/out/anonymous_signer
deleted file mode 100644
index b8581d1..0000000
--- a/out/anonymous_signer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-anonymous namespaces="file-integrity" ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIHNjfc58+rgA/WBEhdF8y4r6y4JddB8RPw2AQHHkaZI0 anonymous
diff --git a/out/attribution.sha512 b/out/attribution.sha512
deleted file mode 100644
index 30bd7d4..0000000
--- a/out/attribution.sha512
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-e7ff3efd3222f6dac5f6156c9d417c90dc56c34973b1b86573e139de1edfb2c15334b3fde0b2295cf63b66b567c22f8a95870c54eacfe9e9aeb5f0d31fa1ff2d
diff --git a/out/checksums.sha512 b/out/checksums.sha512
deleted file mode 100644
index 0918552..0000000
--- a/out/checksums.sha512
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-51b0e1ebf18adf1dabc4d1e0a1a8f5568e6ab51dd490b9425375c067ba8a9a419f235d761f975bcc8a44bb8135a81cef1be95294e365a51c7b90137dc76f6212  ./out/anonymous_signer
-46bd2773528f7670865fb15b7db06e9011989b3aa5bb09c00c4f50a46f5de22225938d9ea25447bef691df598c48505ab8a35fe13baadb47261e4a6cdf4bc8f7  ./out/contents.7z
-fc283df1f568f034617c1d1388fcc17b5961e27a5827be686bb4ade269e149511d78ed6150e8339be6925f96980e1529a23e8d15ff18470fa259ffa22b36f97d  ./out/contents.7z.sig
-f91f1e84c205e1a5d1827be1efb5f576a04894f5649149b6bf5e1cf6e02a29b1470d8aec9ff334a99f5dfc50712a081bfedc182aacd3f6b65249e5f84c0630b3  ./out/test_validation_passphrase.sh
-db0617ccc8fd63a0906532e45eca1c2e07cf476cf9d6c68d2241cc6e254afe22e829bacce48e96cff5975cfd07a10dbd4e2d9006214344711a9571edf3e55987  ./out/verify-everything.sh
diff --git a/out/contents.7z b/out/contents.7z
deleted file mode 100644
index 132b0d6..0000000
Binary files a/out/contents.7z and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/out/contents.7z.sig b/out/contents.7z.sig
deleted file mode 100644
index bed25ab..0000000
--- a/out/contents.7z.sig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
------BEGIN SSH SIGNATURE-----
-U1NIU0lHAAAAAQAAADMAAAALc3NoLWVkMjU1MTkAAAAgc2N9znz6uAD9YESF0XzLivrLgl
-10HxE/DYBAceRpkjQAAAAOZmlsZS1pbnRlZ3JpdHkAAAAAAAAABnNoYTUxMgAAAFMAAAAL
-c3NoLWVkMjU1MTkAAABA0h80JbN4Gk0q1i9lqF3A1lRFfqjPQrFWblWe1IsZB8fQLl6G8j
-l8Igkg5b7ifKRUz36908a/XVkhRbDTUGEkBg==
------END SSH SIGNATURE-----
diff --git a/out/contents/README.md b/out/contents/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/private_ed25519_1779530775 b/private_ed25519_1779530775
deleted file mode 100644
index f6374e1..0000000
--- a/private_ed25519_1779530775
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
------BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
-b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAAAMwAAAAtzc2gtZW
-QyNTUxOQAAACBzY33OfPq4AP1gRIXRfMuK+suCXXQfET8NgEBx5GmSNAAAAJAE2OdRBNjn
-UQAAAAtzc2gtZWQyNTUxOQAAACBzY33OfPq4AP1gRIXRfMuK+suCXXQfET8NgEBx5GmSNA
-AAAEBahLsB5/tAbPyNI//1Smj4wqMSD3wY9n6F2nzHb6GQG3Njfc58+rgA/WBEhdF8y4r6
-y4JddB8RPw2AQHHkaZI0AAAACWFub255bW91cwECAwQ=
------END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
diff --git a/private_ed25519_1779530775.pub b/private_ed25519_1779530775.pub
deleted file mode 100644
index 9742850..0000000
--- a/private_ed25519_1779530775.pub
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIHNjfc58+rgA/WBEhdF8y4r6y4JddB8RPw2AQHHkaZI0 anonymous
diff --git a/reset.sh b/reset.sh
index 8e1f098..43f0783 100644
--- a/reset.sh
+++ b/reset.sh
@@ -1,14 +1,19 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 echo "autoshredding these files:"
 find . -type f \( -path ".git" -o -path "keystore" -o -path "archives" \) -prune \( -name "*.sha512" -o -name "checksums*" -o -name "private*" -o -name ".*" -o -name "*.sig" -o -name "*.7z" -o -name "anonymous_signer" \) -print -exec shred -uz {} \;
+echo $?
 
 echo "autoshredding out"
 srm -r -z -l -l ./out
+echo $?
 
 echo "rebuilding out"
 mkdir -p out/contents
 echo "put files to verifiably archive in here" > out/contents/README.md
 echo "# todo: make this nice" > ./out/README.md 
-
+cp test_validate_passphrase.sh out
+chmod +x out/test_validate_passphrase.sh
+cp verify-everything.sh out
+chmod +x out/verify-everything.sh
 echo done :3
 
diff --git a/out/test_validation_passphrase.sh b/test_validation_passphrase.sh
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 100%
rename from out/test_validation_passphrase.sh
rename to test_validation_passphrase.sh
diff --git a/out/verify-everything.sh b/verify-everything.sh
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 100%
rename from out/verify-everything.sh
rename to verify-everything.sh