Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
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Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
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Re: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
#2Whilst I understand and really like the non-tied in aspect of it, I'd probably implement some sort of facebook/twitter/google account authentication alongside of it.
Reason being is that, it too is just another authentication service that I'd rather users not have to make the effort to sign up for.
Re: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
#3Can someone explain what makes this a browser ID? I don't get it...
Re: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
#4How is it different from OpenID, apart from it's not decentralized?
Re: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
#5What's the advantage over openid?
Re: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
#6Can someone explain what makes this a browser ID? I don't get it...
It's designed so that the browser can interact directly with the authentication protocol, saving steps for the user. This grew out of Mozilla Labs' "account manager" project, which had a protoype UI you can see here: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/account-manager-coming-to-f...
Re: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
#7More at https://browserid.org/
Re: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
#8How is it different from OpenID, apart from it's not decentralized?
I'm wondering if it's at all possible to integrate this with OpenID, and how this interacts with previous Mozilla Identity projects to make your identity a part of the browser chrome. It all seems rather tangential to their other efforts, rather than coherent with.
Re: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
#9I hope that one of these services is on the user's side, so much that the ID isn't enough for, say, advertisers to track users over different sites. And how graceful is it for versions of IE that aren't 'recent'?
Re: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
#10This seems to encourage using the same credentials everywhere which I think most agree is a "bad idea." If BrowserID is compromised, the attackers have access to all the sites where I use browser id, right?