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group chat with markdown served over websockets
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Persona support #51

Open mdietz opened 11 years ago

mdietz commented 11 years ago

Mozilla's persona project allows for federated login support using an email address as the identifier for a user (and the identity assertion is backed by some clever public key crypto so this should be more secure than any kind of bearer token based federated login system).

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/

mdietz commented 11 years ago

See Ben Adida's blog post for the OpenID / Persona similarities and differences: http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7669886219/how-browserid-differs-from-openid