BitAuth for Decentralized Authentication

Re:BitAuth for Decentralized Authentication by scrollaway on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @09:35PM (#7974602)

As usual in decentralized authentication posts, I'd like to mention Mozilla Persona[1] which is a decentralized third party authentication service over the open source BrowserID protocol.

I don't mean to diminish the author's work in any way; but if you're interested in these things and don't know about Persona, please look into it!

[1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/

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Re:BitAuth for Decentralized Authentication by desufnoc on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @11:19PM (#7974966)

I lost interest in Persona/BrowserID when it became apparent that hosts like Fastmail[1] were unable to act as identity providers.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/persona/issues/1523

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Re:BitAuth for Decentralized Authentication by dypsilon on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @09:44PM (#7974637)

Which, by the way, was discontinued: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/08/mozilla-stops-developing-it...

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Re:BitAuth for Decentralized Authentication by yeukhon on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @09:57PM (#7974694)

The right intrepation is that Mozilla is not funding the project, but the protocl (browser id) and Persona source code are still out there.

The downside is Mozilla MIGHT sunset their Persona infrastructure one day. But that's not a real concern because Mozilla is never interested in being people's Persona verifier. They were hoping Persona would take off and people would host their own bridge, instead of relying on Mozillia's.

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Re:BitAuth for Decentralized Authentication by scrollaway on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @11:38PM (#7975050)

Persona was not discontinued. Persona lost active development and marketing. A wrong decision, but not one that affects the protocol itself.

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