BOINC working on user-supplied IDs and passwords

August 14, 2005
We are redesigning BOINC to use a user-supplied identifier and password instead of a system-supplied random key for identifying an account. Comments on the design are welcome.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/new_setup.php

Great news there. Eventually we'll no longer need to have that huge string of numbers and letters to setup our BOINC account.

Wow, that will be a terrific improvement!

A vast improvement. Now if I need to check my stats (after cleaning my cookies) I need to browse in my email account for the SETI project number. This will be less bothersome