Project Euler Returns

Re:Project Euler Returns by hardwaresofton on Friday August 15, 2014 @09:48AM (#8182092)

If Project Euler is trying to make itself less interesting to hackers/less vulnerable by storing less information(email), why don't they consider OAuth for login?

I know OAuth has it's own warts, but isn't part of the point to offload the burden of authentication to someone else?

Also, feel free to replace OAuth with Mozilla Persona or OpenID.

[edit] - s/storing less password/storing less information\(email\)/

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Re:Project Euler Returns by hardwaresofton on Friday August 15, 2014 @05:50PM (#8184425)

Also, I've been thinking of this for a while, but Project Euler needs to be open-sourced. I think this would help people who don't necessarily want to contribute money. I thought rather than just making suggestions, I could make a pull request for implementing OAuth/Persona/OpenID login -- then I realized it wasn't open source...

I've been keeping this idea close to the chest, mostly because it's something I want to do, but Project Euler could easily become a great training tool, an easy-to-install packaged django application(I mention django for it's nice out-of-the-box admin interfaces, doesn't matter what it is as long as it's easy to manage for admins and users)

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