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About Mozilla Persona #10

Closed davidbgk closed 10 years ago

davidbgk commented 10 years ago

One final (and extremely promising) option for authentication is Mozilla Persona. While it currently offers simple email-based authentication in a cross-browser way, the long-term goal of the project is to bring authentication directly into the browser itself. If this goal is realized, it may become possible to have a trusted authentication scheme that doesn't rely on any server whatsoever.

— http://www.staticapps.org/articles/authentication-and-authorization

And since March, 7th:

Persona received less adoption than we were hoping for by this point. A summary of the lessons learned is available in Persona’s “After Action Review” (AAR).

— http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-persona-to-community-ownership

So I'm not sure how optimistic the aforementioned article can still be about the future of Persona. Thoughts?

mbleigh commented 10 years ago

Sadly, you're right, I should probably revise the article. User agent auth is still a dream of mine, but it looks like it's not going to come to pass just yet.

davidbgk commented 10 years ago

Yeah, that makes me sad too :(