Add a Boinc Project to Gridcoin (Whitelisting)
A project is elligible to be whitelisted only if it meets the following criteria:
- Has had no periods greater than 48 hours without any work within the last 7 days
- Connections are encrypted, SSL/TLS
- Project Administrator has posted upon the project forum or responded to Private Messaging regarding whitelisting
- Project Administrator agrees the project can generate enough work to satisfy Gridcoin demand
Based on these four requirements, many of 26 currently whitelisted projects would not be eligible anymore.
Is SSL really a "must have", or should it be seen as more of a "nice to have" for whitelisting?
I do not think that SSL is that needed. IIRC BOINC does some nice crypto on it's own. Surely SSL is needed to protect your web password (because after 30 years, www still does not support proper authentication). But for boinc, things are signed and stuff.
I was split on SSL but included is for discussions sake, currently only two whitelisted projects don't comply.
i dont think ssl should a requirement but a recommendation thou ssl certificates an be free. i sugesst atleast the community is aware they would be using a non ssl project and would be at own risk. this wud reduce who may crunch the prokect but also cud be an insentive for the project to implement ssl to meet there demand for data crunching more efficently