Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authentication system

Re:Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authenticati... by Nux on Saturday September 29, 2012 @02:26PM (#4590386)

How would I log in from a friend's computer with Persona? How about from an Internet cafe; how safe would it be? Persona looks like something that lock's you into a certain device or at least makes it harder to log in on device's that are not your own.

I'd rather they made OpenID less scarry (to average Joe) instead.

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Re:Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authenticati... by fmarier on Saturday September 29, 2012 @03:05PM (#4590526)

Logging into a different device is not a problem, you just get a different certificate in that device's browser and it allows you to login in the same way.

When you use a computer that's not your own, Persona keeps the session time very small. Of course, when you're done using that computer, you should ideally clear cookies, just like you would if you used OpenID or Facebook on a shared computer.

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Re:Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authenticati... by ozten on Saturday September 29, 2012 @05:18PM (#4590940)

Please try this today. It's one main reason The Times uses it on their Crossword product...

This is safe on a public computer or shared device, if you logout.

Persona also has some UI around public versus personal devices.

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Re:Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authenticati... by Sami_Lehtinen on Saturday September 29, 2012 @03:00PM (#4590513)

You really shouldn't login from any non-secure terminal. I have catched even pros doing that mistake with production systems. It's major fail!

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Re:Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authenticati... by Nux on Saturday September 29, 2012 @05:11PM (#4590914)

Major fail or not a good part of the world does not own their own computer.

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