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seanmonstar

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    And what about online shopping, where you just typed in your card number into a site?

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    I plan to make a RotatingFile handler, but at the same time, what's wrong with Unix logrotate?

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    Comment #6182775

    > So your email provider doesn't know where you're logging in. This is already the case. For browsers that use the shim, the certificate is stored in localStorage on the login.pers…

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    Comment #6182131

    Whichever technology you want to use is fine. You need to publish 3 routes: /.well-known/browserid, an auth route, and a provision route. The auth and provision routes need to be H…

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    Comment #6181236

    In short: easier to implement, everyone has an email address, improved privacy. OpenID tells the provider every time you log in to any website, Persona does not. https://developer.…

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    Actually, the the verifier (verifier.login.persona.org) runs code that could be run on any server. It _does_ check Gmail for the well-known file first, and then, since not found, u…

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    Comment #4583257

    Exactly. And there's even this service that tries to automate this into Persona: https://github.com/nmalkin/janus

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    Not everyone supports that though. I do the same thing for OpenID, and sites that "support" open-id like The Verge cannot figure out mine in that way.

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    I don't think it's so much to keep working on the prototype afterwards, but to be able to export it out of the tool (Napkin) and still be able to easily show someone your prototype…

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