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Re: Show HN: A decentralized Internet identity system I'm working on.

#21

BrowserID. please.

No, please, keep reinventing the wheel, keep doing the same thing that everyone has been doing for the last two years. "We need a better way to do identity and auth!" "[here's a rehashed email-login system]" or "[here's a new identity management system I built instead of using an existing one. surely this one will take off!!!!!1111]"

Re: Show HN: A decentralized Internet identity system I'm working on.

#22

BrowserID. please.

No, please, keep reinventing the wheel, keep doing the same thing that everyone has been doing for the last two years. "We need a better way to do identity and auth!" "[here's a rehashed email-login system]" or "[here's a new identity management system I built instead of using an existing one. surely this one will take off!!!!!1111]"

Did you just troll yourself? Wtf.

Re: Show HN: A decentralized Internet identity system I'm working on.

#23
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, please, keep reinventing the wheel, keep doing the same thing that everyone has been doing for the last two years. "We need a better way to do identity and auth!" "[here's a rehashed email-login system]" or "[here's a new identity management system I built instead of using an existing one. surely this one will take off!!!!!1111]"

Did you just troll yourself? Wtf.

No?

Re: Show HN: A decentralized Internet identity system I'm working on.

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot agree with this enough. I implemented BrowserID on one of my sites once, and never looked back. Now every new project uses BrowserID as the only way to log in. It is superior to all other ways I've seen in usability, which is ultimately what counts, and integration takes all of two minutes, much less than traditional password auth. Plus, you don't even need to secure any passwords. I really, really hope it c…

How does BrowserID work in the use case of a native mobile app?

Looks like it works like this:

https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-ios

Re: Show HN: A decentralized Internet identity system I'm working on.

#25

BrowserID. please.

No, please, keep reinventing the wheel, keep doing the same thing that everyone has been doing for the last two years. "We need a better way to do identity and auth!" "[here's a rehashed email-login system]" or "[here's a new identity management system I built instead of using an existing one. surely this one will take off!!!!!1111]"

What is needed is an identity solution that does multiple protocols, e.g. SAML, WSFed, OpenID, Oauth etc. to believe that authentication is not going to change or morf in any way with the billions of developers on the planet is not reality. The solution this developer has come up with is just the beginning of his journey. I believe its a great start, my hat is off to you. But, please stop developing in Ruby. Its like speaking in old world Latin.
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