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First post! More than likely you need to update to a newer BOINC VERSION if your computer is running Windows 7 or newer. Download and install the latest version from here. If you are running Windows XP or VISTA you can't update BOINC past version 7.16.20 you can download and install the ca-bundle.crt file from here. Instructions on how to update the certificate are found at Using older versions of BOINC.  
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Send message Joined: 19 Sep 25 Posts: 4 Credit: 16,479,173 RAC: 199,975 |
First post! This worked perfectly! Thank you! |
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Send message Joined: 20 Nov 16 Posts: 4 Credit: 396,772 RAC: 1 |
First post! I'm having the same problem of not being able to (re)add Asteroids. Apple M1 Max Tahoe 26.2 BOINC Manager 8.2.8 Failed to add project. Please try again later. |
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Last modified: 20 Dec 2025, 22:00:20 UTC Yes, I successfully added Amicable Numbers today. Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | Fetching configuration file from https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/get_project_config.php Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/get_project_config.php Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: Connection 110 seems to be dead Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: shutting down connection #110 Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: Connection 111 seems to be dead Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: shutting down connection #111 Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: Host asteroidsathome.net:443 was resolved. Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: IPv6: (none) Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: IPv4: 195.113.29.201 Sat Dec 20 15:55:54 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: Trying 195.113.29.201:443... Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: ALPN: curl offers http/1.1 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS alert, unknown CA (560): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#2] Info: closing connection #112 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] HTTP error: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): https://www.google.com/ Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Host www.google.com:443 was resolved. Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv6: (none) Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: IPv4: 142.250.191.164 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Trying 142.250.191.164:443... Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL reusing session with ALPN 'http/1.1' Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: ALPN: curl offers http/1.1 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / X25519 / UNDEF Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: ALPN: server accepted http/1.1 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Server certificate: Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: subject: CN=www.google.com Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: start date: Dec 3 15:57:20 2025 GMT Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: expire date: Feb 25 15:57:19 2026 GMT Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: subjectAltName: host "www.google.com" matched cert's "www.google.com" Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: issuer: C=US; O=Google Trust Services; CN=WR2 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: SSL certificate verify ok. Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Established connection to www.google.com (142.250.191.164 port 443) from 10.0.0.61 port 56308 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: using HTTP/1.x Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: GET / HTTP/1.1 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Host: www.google.com Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (arm64-apple-darwin 8.2.8) Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept: */* Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_US Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Sent header to server: Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Request completely sent off Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4): Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:55:55 GMT Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Expires: -1 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only: object-src 'none';base-uri 'self';script-src 'nonce-dYIEonJDrsnfoXaOLdSMWA' 'strict-dynamic' 'report-sample' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https: http:;report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/gws/other-hp Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Accept-CH: Sec-CH-Prefers-Color-Scheme Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info." Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Content-Encoding: gzip Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Server: gws Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-XSS-Protection: 0 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: __Secure-STRP=AD6DogsJR_07XFfY8bj9eSy-AFa1ig2OIS5TieHI59EywCINnsnM9aHD0wR0IAKPdcGs98LlKqPZXk3SsDxILqhBjWfiEYLulqLj; expires=Sat, 20-Dec-2025 22:00:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure; SameSite=strict Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: AEC=AaJma5temLqMLppd5b-3KOQEF7iIe4PJrThDBc13YQ3o7ifn522_BzDKng; expires=Thu, 18-Jun-2026 21:55:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=lax Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: NID=527=dJFLiAlUqbAdR1MXT3vKihTkpsJynHUZcZUMmkIJyY4G7GgF3a0tlFId_mV6C-BVAtP80Zb-K5RihGvmvrrbRObXNQI0pPO-wyT4S9Govv9x_yp7xAIa0LIJ3j9FQV0dS51ZJkdzmLPXcq4RzSo4i3gEmb5VL0oimk5-_1aKoAh42ISGLrFaPBCc-PoqdoJq9GT6Grq78SEvjJUjCZzkiMK4W0jgg02NkHLSpA; expires=Sun, 21-Jun-2026 21:55:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Set-Cookie: __Secure-BUCKET=CMMH; expires=Thu, 18-Jun-2026 21:55:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure; HttpOnly Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000 Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Transfer-Encoding: chunked Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Received header from server: Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1897 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1253 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 172 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2838 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3382 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3442 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3993 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4105 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4531 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4868 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4181 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 4489 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3882 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 7386 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 5287 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3140 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3957 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3998 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2300 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 1279 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 3967 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http_xfer] [ID#0] HTTP: wrote 2559 bytes Sat Dec 20 15:55:55 2025 | | [http] [ID#0] Info: Connection #113 to host www.google.com:443 left intact Sat Dec 20 15:55:56 2025 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. |
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Send message Joined: 1 Jan 13 Posts: 170 Credit: 15,655,032 RAC: 19,501 |
Since your system does not recognize or trust the server’s certificate, it refuses to communicate with it. BOINC 7.18.0+ on macOS should use system certificates, which should be upgradable via system updates. brew update brew reinstall ca-certificates I don’t have a Mac, so it would be helpful if someone who is affected could confirm whether this fixes the issue. There is also an open BOINC issue to make the error message more informative, as it currently makes it look like the project is down when it isn’t. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/6613 |
Gary
Send message Joined: 28 Jul 24 Posts: 10 Credit: 2,509,289 RAC: 4,520 |
I am having this problem too. I recently had to reformat and reinstall 10.15.7 on an older Mac I've been using for BOINC for over 10 years. I reinstalled BOINC, and have been able to add Einstein@home, LHC@home, and Rosetta@home with no issues. I cannot get Asteroids@home to add. The error is "Failed to add project. Please try again later." The log has the following: Fri Jan 16 23:11:06 2026 | | Fetching configuration file from https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/get_project_config.php Fri Jan 16 23:11:07 2026 | | Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site Fri Jan 16 23:11:08 2026 | | Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. I have Asteroids@home running on another computer (side by side) with no issues. I even removed and added Asteroids@home to see if there was an issue adding the project on the other computer, but no issues. I have uninstalled and reinstalled BOINC, various versions going back to 7.16.11 with the same failure resulting. Can someone point me in a direction to troubleshoot this? I'm no computer novice, have been working with Mac since the mid 80s. |
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Send message Joined: 28 Jul 24 Posts: 10 Credit: 2,509,289 RAC: 4,520 |
Last modified: 17 Jan 2026, 4:51:34 UTC I tried adding the file "ca-bundle.crt" to the "/Library/Application Support/Boinc Data". That had no effect. I noticed that there was no BOINC related file in the user's "~/Library/Application Support/" directory on the other computer where everything is normal. but there IS a BOINC file in the "~/Library/Application Support/" on the computer having a problem. I tried copying the file "ca-bundle.crt" to the "~/Library/Application Support/" directory and restarted Boinc Manager. That worked, and I was able to add the project successfully, thanks to re-reading the earlier messages in this thread, specifically, Message 9252.
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