[Pushpool Web Frontend] Simplecoin v5.0 Opensource PHP/MySQL - NEW RELEASE

[phorensic]

Hmm, you must have been using shares_history different that I am.  My "shares" is only as large as the current round, old round gets cut and pasted into history.  Never have to do joins or unions.

So you throw away the hash data for shares counted?  I haven't been brave enough to do that on my history.

[simplecoin]

Hmm, you must have been using shares_history different that I am.  My "shares" is only as large as the current round, old round gets cut and pasted into history.  Never have to do joins or unions.

So you throw away the hash data for shares counted?  I haven't been brave enough to do that on my history.

I do, once it the round is paid out it's already been verified. I don't see much historical value in past blocks outside of share counts and block finder.

[simplecoin]

Holy incoming updates!

I may have to deem this release 4.0 because the changes are that drastic!

[Paul4games]

Holy incoming updates!

I may have to deem this release 4.0 because the changes are that drastic!

Looking forward for this update.

[sareea]

Hello,
When will you release the new updated version ? And will it have sql injection security ?
I really wanna use simplecoin , and if i install the current one is it upgradable to 4 ? I am looking up to open my pool today or tomorrow .
Please answer me Thanks !

[simplecoin]

Hello,
When will you release the new updated version ? And will it have sql injection security ?
I really wanna use simplecoin , and if i install the current one is it upgradable to 4 ? I am looking up to open my pool today or tomorrow .
Please answer me Thanks !

Currently there will not be an easy upgrade path from 2-4. The database changes are drastic.
Version 2 should have sql injection security as should the expirimental branch in the repository.

[sareea]

Hello,
When will you release the new updated version ? And will it have sql injection security ?
I really wanna use simplecoin , and if i install the current one is it upgradable to 4 ? I am looking up to open my pool today or tomorrow .
Please answer me Thanks !

Currently there will not be an easy upgrade path from 2-4. The database changes are drastic.
Version 2 should have sql injection security as should the expirimental branch in the repository.

So what do you suggest ?
I wanna work with simplecoin !!

[simplecoin]

Hello,
When will you release the new updated version ? And will it have sql injection security ?
I really wanna use simplecoin , and if i install the current one is it upgradable to 4 ? I am looking up to open my pool today or tomorrow .
Please answer me Thanks !

Currently there will not be an easy upgrade path from 2-4. The database changes are drastic.
Version 2 should have sql injection security as should the expirimental branch in the repository.

So what do you suggest ?
I wanna work with simplecoin !!

I'm ironing out the last bits now. I'll have v4 in the repository soon enough.

[sareea]

Hello,
When will you release the new updated version ? And will it have sql injection security ?
I really wanna use simplecoin , and if i install the current one is it upgradable to 4 ? I am looking up to open my pool today or tomorrow .
Please answer me Thanks !

Currently there will not be an easy upgrade path from 2-4. The database changes are drastic.
Version 2 should have sql injection security as should the expirimental branch in the repository.

So what do you suggest ?
I wanna work with simplecoin !!

I'm ironing out the last bits now. I'll have v4 in the repository soon enough.

OOOO ok i will wait man

[mich]

Just testing new 3rd version, and got this mistakes:

Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, boolean given in /var/www/includes/stats.php on line 150

Warning: Division by zero in /var/www/includes/header.php on line 99

PS: It was until pool accept shares from worker.
PPS: When no one worker conected the same mistakes ((((

[sareea]

Any updates Simplecoin ? i am very curious about this
Thanks !

[simplecoin]

Version 4 is now in the master and experimental branches!

There is no clear upgrade path from 2.0-4.0, It would be faster to migrate the shares/user data over manually than to rely on a script that may take hours to run.

Additionally version 4 is not without a few bugs, but overall it is more stable and usable than version 2 or 3.

There is a known issue with the stats, share count doesn't seem to be going up. This doesn't affect payout, just a quirk with the stats page.

[sareea]

The other files of the script are not running, all i see is a white screen , all i see is the header and thats it . nothing else .

I am checking what is not installed , i am having everything being running fine .

Please help !

Code:

[Fri Aug 12 16:11:18 2011] [error] [client 109.66.112.62
] PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62

[Fri Aug 12 16:11:19 2011] [error] [client 109.66.112.62
] PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62, referer: http://78.47.162.16
4/register.php

[Fri Aug 12 16:11:21 2011] [error] [client 109.66.112.62
] PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62, referer: http://78.47.162.16
4/stats.php

PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62, referer: http://78.47.162.16
4/gettingstarted.php

[error] [client 58.218.199.22
7] script '/var/www/proxyheader.php' not found or unable
 to stat

[Fri Aug 12 16:10:52 2011] [error] [client 109.66.112.62
] PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62, referer: http://78.47.162.16
4/register.php

[Fri Aug 12 16:11:13 2011] [error] [client 109.66.112.62
] PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62, referer: http://78.47.162.16
4/register.php

[Fri Aug 12 16:11:16 2011] [error] [client 109.66.112.62
] PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62, referer: http://78.47.162.16
4/register.

] PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62, referer: http://78.47.162.16
4/about.php

[Fri Aug 12 16:10:49 2011] [error] [client 109.66.112.62
] PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62, referer: http://78.47.162.16
4/about.php

[Fri Aug 12 16:10:51 2011] [error] [client 109.66.112.62
] PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/www/api/pool/speed): failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/inc
ludes/stats.php on line 62, referer: http://78.47.162.16
4/stats.php

What are these ?

[sareea]

I checked in this file
https://github.com/simplecoin/simplecoin/blob/master/includes/stats.php

and i think the source of this is here : ( it is true that this file doesn't exist :S )

Code:

setCache("pool_hashrate", $currenthashrate, 300);
try {
$fileName = "/var/www/api/pool/speed";
$fileHandle = fopen($fileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fileHandle, ($currenthashrate/1000));
fclose($fileHandle);
} catch (Exception $e) {
//echo $e->getMessage();
}

Sorry for the double post

[simplecoin]

it's a hashrate file used by stats sites.

make the missing directory. 

[sareea]

speed is a file or a directory ?
Thanks
Can you take a look please?
http://78.47.162.164/

And should i uncomment this line ?
//echo $e->getMessage();

[simplecoin]

speed is a file or a directory ?
Thanks
Can you take a look please?
http://78.47.162.164/

And should i uncomment this line ?
//echo $e->getMessage();

Speed is a file, generated by stats, you can stop it's creation in incudes/stats.php if you wish.

[DiamondPlus]

Great job, for simplecoin.

One thing that is important to know is that security by obscurity is a very bad thing, most of the times there are problems with the design and even when the design of the algorithm is good, there are security holes that go undetected until the cracker finds out.

-DiamondPlus

Open source security algorithms are the best, for example take a look at the security of the bitcoin network, it is very solid, and in the rare event that a security was found most likely it would be in the implementation and it would be fixed within hours.

There are a lot of commercial security closed source programs that use the vigenere cipher, of course that is a secret, the vigenere cipher is very easy to implement and it provides security against the average person, but by design it is insecure, it is used a lot due to its simplicity,  in closed source it is very hard to tell it uses the vigenere chipher, until someone does some reverse engineering, and after that the security completely colapses, any good cracker will crack the algorithm no very easy but doable. There are other algorithm that are also very simple and easy to implement used in closed source programs like rot13, or substitution cipher both very insecure and worse than vigenere.

Then there the famous one time pad very secure only algorithm proven to be unbreakable but also not very practical.

-DiamondPlus

The there are the good ones, but more complex idea, rsa, blowfish, etc, these can only be broken by brute force attacks, extremely difficult specially is the keys are large.

I used to be a cryptographer in the mid 90, so I am not up to date with the latest algorithms, but one thing I learned is that most close source packages are very insecure, and there are packages that break the security of those closed source programs, there was a programmer I do not remember his name that wrote software to unlock the locks, he was arrested in las vegas by the fbi after he gave a conference in defcon, he would talk a lot about insecure close source software with mathematical proofs, he sold unlock software for most closed source commerical packages.

-DiamondPlus

The lesson to be learned is that for the most security it is best to rely on a good algorithm, and not by security by obscurity, therefore most secure algorithms are usually open source. In theory if a person is a brilliant genius a close source security software could be secure, but for most of us, and most real world cases, open source is the way to go for security.

In many companies managers believe on closed source, the only reason for that is ignorance, they are usually not cryptographers, and know very little about programming, when working for a company like that vigenere cipher is great makes the manager happy and you are done quickly with the job, but for a job well done it is all in the algorithm and its implementation  and it takes more work when you have security in mind.

-DiamondPlus

[Lolcust]

Hey, just a quick question - are there "noob-friendly" instructions on how to set this baby up, and what are the approximate sys.reqirements (how big a VPS would I need to play around with this baby) ?

[simplecoin]

Hey, just a quick question - are there "noob-friendly" instructions on how to set this baby up, and what are the approximate sys.reqirements (how big a VPS would I need to play around with this baby) ?

No, there are currently no noob-friendly instructions. In fact, I don't recommend anyone trying to setup a public pool without significant development and network knowledge.

For a small pool a 1gb-2core vps might suffice.

I run my install on 4 servers. 1x8core sql, 1x8core pool, 2x2core web & replication