mozilla/persona on Hacker News

…because it wasn't easy enough to implement and there was chicken-and-the-egg adoption problem. https://github.com/mozilla/persona

comment by ForHackernews · 2024-03-29 · in Ask HN: Projects You Thought Were Cool but Failed Miserably – What Happened?

Mozilla Persona was on GitHub all along was it not? Not sure what the issue with that one was. https://github.com/mozilla/persona

comment by giancarlostoro · 2019-11-07 · in Fast – One-click sign up, login and checkout

…calling for him to be fired. Wait, people are allowed to speak their own mind? Oh, the horror. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/persona

comment by bad_user · 2017-01-18 · in Mozilla launches new brand identity

It does - https://github.com/mozilla/persona

comment by citruspi · 2015-12-09 · in Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones

…into it more tomorrow. Otherwise, if you mention my nick on IRC or GitHub, I'll see it. :) [0]: https://github.com/mozilla/persona/

comment by callahad · 2014-10-16 · in Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy

…when it became apparent that hosts like Fastmail[1] were unable to act as identity providers. [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/persona/issues/1523

comment by desufnoc · 2014-07-02 · in BitAuth for Decentralized Authentication

…The hard requirement for HTTPS or DNSSEC is what raised the bar too high for us in the end (see https://github.com/mozilla/persona/issues/1523 for more info). Basically, the domain owner needs to securely delegate to the identity provider.…

comment by robn_fastmail · 2014-03-09 · in Transitioning Persona to Community Ownership

The projects are on GitHub: The main Persona project: https://github.com/mozilla/persona The Gmail bridge: https://github.com/mozilla/persona-gmail-bridge The Yahoo bridge: https://github.com/mozilla/persona-yahoo-bridge (I'm not…

comment by jdlshore · 2014-03-08 · in Transitioning Persona to Community Ownership

…using DNS for resolution, just very badly. I just went looking. There's a whole thread over here: https://github.com/mozilla/persona/issues/1523 & https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.identity/d... where the developers…

comment by inopinatus · 2014-02-15 · in What did Persona get right? Why did Persona fail to gain wide adoption?

…email me (HN username @ mozilla.com) and tell me more about how it's not working? Or file a bug: https://github.com/mozilla/persona/issues/new

comment by callahad · 2013-12-10 · in The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face

…issues and it isn't a core priority for the team. That said... here is one of the building blocks https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2932 Get involved and implement this as a NodeJS module.

comment by ozten · 2013-08-08 · in Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users

https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/blob/dev/lib/db/mysql.j...

comment by ygjb · 2013-06-12 · in Mozilla Persona and Surveillance

…we are today, so let's just get to where we want to be tomorrow. And finally add a link to Github: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid

comment by buro9 · 2013-06-12 · in Mozilla Persona and Surveillance

Yes and we're tracking it here: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2158 That list you see in Chromium (which is now also shared with Firefox) is the list of sites that come with HSTS ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Secur…

comment by fmarier · 2013-06-12 · in Mozilla Persona and Surveillance

That's a (temporary) bug, not a feature: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/3119

comment by dochtman · 2013-06-10 · in Mozilla should move Persona out of the US

…and trying to log in? If that doesn't work, it sounds like you hit a bug -- could you file that at https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues , please? The password stuff was because your email provider doesn't support Persona's protocol,…

comment by callahad · 2013-04-10 · in New Persona Beta: Millions of Users Ready to Log In using Any Browser

I've filed a new bug for this: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/3225 Could you please chime in with your browser, version and OS over there?

comment by callahad · 2013-04-10 · in New Persona Beta: Millions of Users Ready to Log In using Any Browser

Yup! https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/new

comment by 6a68 · 2013-04-09 · in New Persona Beta: Millions of Users Ready to Log In using Any Browser

Er... "they" have also published the full source code involved (at https://github.com/mozilla/browserid ) and a privacy policy at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/privacy-policy/ that you can compare to said source code as desired, if…

comment by bzbarsky · 2013-04-09 · in New Persona Beta: Millions of Users Ready to Log In using Any Browser

…provide any profile information. We'd love to see more experiments in this space. Get involved https://github.com/mozilla/browserid

comment by ozten · 2013-04-09 · in New Persona Beta: Millions of Users Ready to Log In using Any Browser

…the Chrome app. EDIT: Here is a link to the progress on this issue, it was moved to the next beta https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2034

comment by alexangelini · 2013-04-09 · in New Persona Beta: Millions of Users Ready to Log In using Any Browser

…I don't consider abusive, given the number of systems that do it already.) But it's on our radar: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1523

comment by badida · 2013-03-27 · in Persona is distributed. Today.

not yet, but we're working on it: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/3119

comment by badida · 2013-03-20 · in Users don't like social login

…the case-sensitivity issues, this pull request should have fixed all of the outstanding ones: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/pull/3078 Of course, if you find anything we've missed, please file a bug :)

comment by fmarier · 2013-03-20 · in Users don't like social login

…or an issue with Persona itself. EDIT: It's a known issue with Persona and third party cookies: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1352 Unfortunately, this is a situation where a lot of people on HN probably disable third party…

comment by shantanubala · 2012-12-25 · in Show HN: Turn Your Blog Into a Downloadable Ebook

…take care of that, today, for virtually any domain / browser combo. You can help out on that, too: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid The future will be even better if the Tent and Diaspora folks make it easy for their servers to also…

comment by callahad · 2012-12-19 · in Firefox OS challenges the closed mobile ecosystems

…if you hit the reset link from the same browser that requested the reset. Edit: More info at https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2499#issuecommen... Which is really interesting, because Persona is doing the right thing, but giving…

comment by callahad · 2012-10-12 · in Persona Password Reset Phishing Flaw

Indeed, you're not the only one confused by this flow, which is why there's an open bug for it: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1232

comment by fmarier · 2012-10-12 · in Persona Password Reset Phishing Flaw

…works great in PhoneGap apps, if you use the ChildBrowser plugin. The bug to watch is this one: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2034 supporting environments without popups will clear the way for good native SDKs.

comment by callahad · 2012-09-29 · in Persona - Mozilla's decentralized and secure authentication system

…we hope other browsers will. Same for identity providers. The spec and code are all open-source: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid So Mozilla's strategy remains the same: Put the users of the internet first. That's why we made this.

comment by jedp · 2012-09-27 · in Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

Thanks, that's really good feedback. I've pasted your comments into a bug report: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2539 Feel free to jump in if you have ideas on how we can phrase this better.

comment by fmarier · 2012-09-27 · in Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

We'll also be looking into DNS-based delegation for the next beta: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1523

comment by fmarier · 2012-09-27 · in Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

…it work for you on http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/ ? If not, we'd love to help identify your issue https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/new

comment by ozten · 2012-09-27 · in Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona

…identity providers, and browsers. We'll gladly take your pull requests over your money :) https://github.com/mozilla/browserid

comment by callahad · 2012-09-03 · in Logins without logins.

…when users are on slow connections / high packet loss connections. I've filed a bug to investigate: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2090 > "Validation is complicated enough they don’t want sites trying to do it themselves" The…

comment by callahad · 2012-07-18 · in Mozilla Persona (BrowserID) is a step in the wrong direction

…way to verify-it-yourself is to just run our code locally; it's all open source, after all :) https://github.com/mozilla/browserid (PS: The docs are now on MDN, instead of the GitHub wiki: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/BrowserID )

comment by callahad · 2012-07-12 · in Introducing Mozilla Persona, An Identity System for the Web

…it down from their Wiki. It used to say "You may choose to validate assertions on your own server": https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/wiki/How-to-Use-Browser... - the verification code is still online, though)

comment by glassx · 2012-07-12 · in Introducing Mozilla Persona, An Identity System for the Web

Our translation files were messed up. The fix should enter production on Monday: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1905 Thanks!

comment by callahad · 2012-07-07 · in Yet Another Sign Up (Why Isn't Open ID More Popular By Now?)

…Persona is our identity site that (among other things) implements BrowserID. BrowserID code: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid "BrowserID will stay as a technology name, but the consumer-facing brand of our service will fall under the…

comment by floatingatoll · 2012-03-22 · in Persona: Mozilla's BrowserID Service

This is really well done and funny. You missed one... https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/wiki/How-to-Use-Browser...

comment by latchkey · 2012-01-28 · in Zocial CSS3 Buttons

Interesting that you write 'Edit' vs. 'edit'... Here is another issue I just filed last night: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/809 tl;dr: Super minor, but the case of buttons is actually important UX too. I'm worried about…

comment by latchkey · 2011-12-26 · in Open Letter to sites with annoying interfaces

…semi-close example. Not about hovering, but how about needless hiding of important user experience? https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/797 I filed this super minor issue in the browserid issue tracker and it was closed with 'as…

comment by latchkey · 2011-12-26 · in Open Letter to sites with annoying interfaces

…dependencies on others. Refer to the specification and the source for the reference validator." - https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/wiki/How-to-Use-Browser...

comment by sandeepshetty · 2011-12-16 · in Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live

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Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live

story by waterside81 · 2011-12-16 · 89 comments

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BrowserID reference implementation is built on Node.js

story by bergie · 2011-07-20 · 0 comments

Filed as a bug: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/58

comment by JoshTriplett · 2011-07-15 · in Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in