BrowserID: Logging in with BrowserID, Passport and NodeJS

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by jaredhanson • 14 years ago

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Osiris• 14 years ago

I'm looking forward to BrowserID becoming mainstream. I'm sick of trying to remember account numbers or usernames and passwords for websites that I use infrequently.

StavrosK• 14 years ago

Well, I'm reasonably sure we'll be seeing more of it for Django, at least. Since integration takes about five minutes and I don't have to create and style all the login/signup/change password/forgot password/etc templates, it's all I use for authentication on new apps nowadays.

callahad• 14 years ago

One quick correction: "an assertion is provided in the frontend and then the server sends it back to BrowserID to get the user information." isn't quite accurate.

All of the user information is available in the assertion. You can get at it locally, without having to talk back to us. We just have a web service that makes it easier to verify the cryptographic signatures on that blob. (And it is, of course, open source, so you can run your own if your language of choice doesn't have its own library for local verification.)

Osmose• 14 years ago

PyBrowserID supports local verification in Python: https://github.com/mozilla/PyBrowserID

drivebyacct2• 14 years ago

I hope people don't just schluff off BrowserID like OpenID or others. It has a lot of really cool potential and can be as secure as regular user/pass or as secure as certificates depending on how it's setup and used.

Abundnce10• 14 years ago

This is the first time I've heard of BrowserID, do any popular sites currently allow you to sign in using it?

kluivers• 14 years ago

What will happen to it when they will rename to 'Mozilla Personas'? Will the login screen suddenly show the Mozilla Persona logo instead of BrowserID as it currently does? I can't imagine this gaining any traction with bigger sites / brands if it is pushing the Mozilla brand.

BrowserID: Logging in with BrowserID, Passport and NodeJS

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