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Forum: BOINC Agent Support
Thread: Security upgrade, Monday, July 20, 2015 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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World Community Grid will be upgrading our SSL (security) certificates on Monday, July 20th, 2015. The majority of our volunteers will not be impacted by this change. SSL certificates are used to encrypt communications between your web browser and our servers, and between the software client and our servers. SSL certificates must be renewed periodically and we are therefore updating our current certificates. Certain older versions of BOINC or World Community Grid software will not be compatible with our new certificates. After we upgrade the certificates, volunteers using older versions of the software may not be able upload, download, request or report research work. To ensure that you will not be impacted, please upgrade to the latest version of the software. Could someone clarify what "certain older versions" means? Is this a case of all pre-V6 BOINC versions or such or is it more of case of very specific versions at various levels? I presume that once the certificates are updated, any impact to a user would occur the next time BOINC is started on their machine? I want to make sure my team is aware of this change but it would be nice to be able to say who needs to worry about this and who doesn't. Normally, upgrading BOINC is not an issue but I suppose someone with an ancient machine with a long out of support OS might be stuck with a way old level of BOINC. Thanks! |
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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4894 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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They are recommending to upgrade to the latest version. The latest WCG version is 7.2.47 (Windows), 7.2.42 (Linux)
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/ms/viewDownloadAgain.do |
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widdershins
Veteran Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 30, 2007 Post Count: 677 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There is a lot more information on this in another thread.
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,38190 It will not matter whether the computer is restarted or not. If the BOINC client is unable to use the new SSL certificates for communications with the server, both upload and download will fail immediately the server starts using them. So keeping a machine running 24/7 will not postpone the problem by even 1 second. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for the link. I've read thru it and now I need to go get some aspirin.
---------------------------------------- Looks like the net is, you would have had trouble up/downloading/reporting work earlier if this change on Monday will affect you and need to go to at least some 7.2 level of BOINC. |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'll keep my computer in the office ON, while on vacation...can u please confirm that it will get new tasks & return crunched ones on - if it's running a BOINC version 7.2.42?
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Former Member
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For those who have not received the original notice with link to the recommended downloads page, go https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=437
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theodolite
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Will be mind-blowing to see how low the overall WCG performance will fall to after many older systems stop uploading. So all currently working systems running software prior to 7.2.47 will stop on Monday? Glad I'm not a CA.
Even more interesting to see how many systems never, ever come back. I've probably got 8 cores which could be months at best. After all, this is about SPARE cycles, not about updating a core software application. What was it that is being fixed? a certificate? Really? Ok. |
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widdershins
Veteran Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 30, 2007 Post Count: 677 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Firstly, some versions prior to 7.2.47 will work after the change, because there are a variety of versions for different platforms they are hedging their bets and recommending upgrading to 7.2.47 which they know will work for everyone.
A rather basic summary is that v5 boinc (or earlier) will break, some v6 will break and some will be ok, but v7.2.47 should be good for everyone. Secondly the techs believe that only a small percentage (around 4% I believe was mentioned) will break, and probably most of those can be upgraded fairly painlessly. Only a few folks will find the upgrade difficult or impossible for them to do. |
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Former Member
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It got tested in the thread you linked to earlier by BobCat13... the trip point is around 6.10.42 for Windows it seems https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=496719 and 6.11.7 for Linux https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=496693, so essentially 6.12 is good as 6.11 is an alpha release.
----------------------------------------Net test, if the start up message/event log mentions OpenSSL 0.98g, you're cooked, if OpenSSL 1.01 you're fine. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 18, 2015 10:28:24 AM] |
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widdershins
Veteran Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 30, 2007 Post Count: 677 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My oldest machine is getting long in the tooth and will probably not be upgraded. It's been showing signs of increasing flakeyness in its old age anyway so when it no longer gets units I'll probably load up the shotgun and lead it out behind the barn to do the decent thing.
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