Identity Articles
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Dweb: Identity for the Decentralized Web with IndieAuth
IndieAuth is a decentralized login protocol that enables users of your software to log in to other apps. It's an extension to OAuth 2.0 that lets any website to become its own identity provider, leveraging all the existing security considerations and best practices in the industry around authorization and authentication.
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First Beta release of Mozilla Persona – Login without Passwords
For the past year, we’ve been rapidly improving Mozilla Persona (previously BrowserID). Our goal is simple: we want to eliminate passwords on the Web. Today, after many iterations based on community implementation feedback, Persona enters Beta. This first beta means: we’ve produced and are committing to a much improved API the first-user experience is significantly […]
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Ben Adida on BrowserID and identity
This is the second installment of Mission:Mozilla, a series of interviews that link Mozillians, the technology they produce and the Mozilla mission. Today Ben Adida is in the hot seat to discuss BrowserID, Mozilla’s identity initiative. Tristan Nitot – Hi Ben, can you briefly introduce yourself? Ben Adida – I’ve been hacking since high school […]
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, September 22nd
It’s Thursday, and time for reading suggestions from the Mozilla Developer Engagement team!
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Mozilla Hacks Weekly, August 18th 2011
It’s Thursday, folks, and you know what that means, right? It’s time for Mozilla Hacks Weekly, with recommended reading from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Team!
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Introducing BrowserID – easier and safer authentication on the web
Security on the web is more important than ever. Almost weekly reports of exploits of information and leaks into the public make it hard for a lot of people to trust the internet. One of the main annoyances is that every service expect us to have a login and password. As we use lots of […]
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An interesting way to determine if you are logged into social web sites
Do you remember the trick how to find out that you went to certain web sites by analysing link colour (now patched in Firefox)? There is much your browser tells about you if you just create a few HTML elements. Mike Cardwell has found an interesting way to detect if you are logged into social […]
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Getting involved with Account Manager
It’s been a couple of weeks since we originally posted about Account Manager and we’ve gotten a lot of feedback. We’ve got a few opportunities for people to get more involved with the project, listed below. Join us at the Account Manager Meet-up or at IIW We are hosting an Account Manager Meet-up on Friday, […]
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Account Manager coming to Firefox
Update: The Account Manager is no longer maintained. Building on this experiment, we have conceived BrowserID. Please consider using it instead. Last month Mozilla Labs announced a new concept series on online identity. As part of this exploration, we developed the Account Manager. The Account Manager makes it incredibly easy for users to create new […]
