soon: less BOINC projects rewarded with Gridcoin, due to lack of SSL

in #gridcoin • 8 years ago (edited)

User Neuralminer and customminer have been active in reaching out to BOINC projects regarding their SSL status (further info). Current result below.


What happens if those 9 BOINC projects are purged from the Gridcoin whitelist ?

  • more competition in the remaining BOINC projects (b/c people will switch)


If you are running one of those projects: 

  • feel free to comment in the listed forums threads and/or like the threads also there, so it gets larger attention (and hopefully leads to SSL implementation).


The poll "Should SSL encryption be mandatory for whitelisted BOINC projects" has more YES-votes 

  • (as of 2016 Sep 2: weight is 22:9 for YES)


No SSL/not in the near future:

 

No response by BOINC admins yet:

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     8 years ago 

    It is in all our users best interest that SSL should go mandatory for all projects on the Whitelist. What will happen if a project with popular demand sais no to SSL is not know today what I know of. But as said, there will be polls on each project before they are removed. But projects with low user base will probably be gone if they do not enable SSL.

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     8 years ago 

    Erkan, I posted in POEM a while ago on this subject as I crunch their WUs and went back to see what result I got but could not find the post. I must have screwed up somewhere, happens. So, I re-posted to a couple of threads including yours. Maybe there will be some communication!? I'll keep watching.

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     8 years ago (edited)

    RE: Universe@Home SSL Status

    erkan, on 01 Sept 2016 - 7:48 PM, said:
    To those of you crunching this project, here is a thread about the SSL status.
    Comment there and/or like also, so it gets larger attention:
    http://universeathome.pl/universe/forum_thread.php?id=164#1376

    It turns out that since Universe@Home is hosted in Poland, they cannot 'import' SSL encryption by law:

    "Import of cryptography is regulated as well, through a 1993 law; a general authorization or import certificate is required to buy encryption products abroad.

    The end-user must detail the kind of information to be encrypted and where the cryptography is to be installed.

    Legitimate businesses will be helped with their application. There is no need for declaration for crypto software exported from abroad under the Wassenaar General Software Note."
    http://www.cryptolaw.org/cls2.htm#po

    What was that about state sponsored MITM attacks again? lol!

    EDIT:
    It looks like they will be applying for SSL, but they need to wait for funding. They do not accept donations. http://universeathome.pl/universe/forum_thread.php?id=164&postid=1496

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     8 years ago 

    Just started with Leiden and LHC; hopefully they will take heed and decide to go with SSL

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