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10 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2012-07-12 · latest 2018-04-11

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  1. Whatever happened to BrowserID from Mozilla? [1] [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde...
  2. …simple does not accurately communicate the current state of the implementation. Look at the spec: https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde... > This assertion is a Backed Identity Assertion, as defined above. We call it…
  3. …If that's not geeky enough, you can read the spec for the browserid protocol: https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs Comparison to OpenID is covered in the FAQ page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/FAQ#How_doe... We've got
  4. …http://identity.mozilla.com/post/11145921163/browserid-desig... and a technical specification at https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde... that describes the exact data flow involved. And if you read those, it should…
  5. I've just read through the Persona protocol specification document at https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde... and was quite disappointed to find RFC5785 in use, in which HTTP is abused as an infrastructure discovery…
    comment by inopinatus · 2013-03-27 · in Persona is distributed. Today.
  6. BrowserID Protocol Spec https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde...
  7. …does the JS assertion object look like? Needs to be updated a little bit, but check out the spec: https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde... Note: You don't have to implement this yourself! You can POST assertions to…
  8. …an open protocol someday. You're in luck! :) The protocol is open and completely decentralized: https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde... Mozilla operates a few centralized services to solve the chicken-and-egg…
  9. …the underlying spec (working on getting it updated for Beta 1, but the principles are all there) https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde...
  10. https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/ Pull requests and new issues welcome :)