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by chrimeea
Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:52 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: protection against foul computing [Lot's of <--]
Replies: 5
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Re: protection against foul computing

I was thinking that the best way to protect the research against this kind of errors or tempering would be to issue the same WU to at least two different teams. Then compare the results and if they match then the result is definetly ok. Of course this would half the speed of folding@home research.
by chrimeea
Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:46 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: protection against foul computing [Lot's of <--]
Replies: 5
Views: 1871

protection against foul computing [Lot's of <--]

Hi, I would like to know if the folding@home software has a way of protecting itself against illegal clients. For example maybe someone can alter their client to make wrong calculations. Then the result of this calculation is send by the folding@home client to the main server. Can the server recogni...