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Former Member
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Is there any chance of getting a whitepaper from WCG regarding the safety/security of BOINC? I'm trying to promote this at a large and somewhat paranoid university.
Here's a pretty good example: https://secure.logmein.com/wp_lmi_security.pdf |
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TKH
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Aug 13, 2005 Post Count: 775 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi esoteric17,
Please send me a note via contact us and let me know what university you are working with, as we also have several people in the field working with various universities. Thanks Tedi |
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retsof
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It might also be worth doing a team search for parts of the university name or abbreviation or acronym. Some other department might even be here already.
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Former Member
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I would also like a white paper... not for an institute but for security concerned potential crunchers (the only thing preventing them is a possible security breach), but I have been unable to find any security-related data concerning WCG.
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Hello Milkarion,
Here is an interview dated 22 Nov 2004 in Grid Today ( http://www.gridtoday.com/04/1122/104295.html ) with IBM's vice president of Grid computing, Al Bunshaft, which mentions that IBM did a security audit of the UD code before adopting it for the World Community Grid. Each application undergoes a similar security audit before it is released on the grid. BOINC is a moving target, since it is always being updated, but I know that BOINC adopted the Secure Socket Layer Protocol for communications at the request of WCG before WCG deployed BOINC. Offhand, I do not know of any other BOINC project that uses the SSL option for communications. I suspect that the security of WCG is at least as good as any other public distributed computing network. Lawrence |
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retsof
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For Total computer Run Time of 129,257 years to date,
----------------------------------------136,259,430 results have been sent in with no security breaches at all. Data that itself is encrypted is sent up via the HTTPS secure socket layer. Perhaps we should ask how many security breaches there have been at the university itself for other reasons. Computer virus attacks? Denial of service attacks? Physical things like murders, robberies, burglaries, drunk driving... cheating on tests, embezzlement, the list goes on
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