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Beyond Passwords: Secure Authentication with Mozilla Persona

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What it is

Dan Callahan presents Mozilla Persona, a decentralized, cross-browser authentication system that removes site passwords, at PyCon 2013. He explains how the protocol works and how to add it to a Python site.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as the best explanation of how Persona's provisioning and login work, and of why it used email addresses as identity.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2016

What HN commenters said

  1. “It is a very elegant, decentralised solution to the login problem.”

    Elegant decentralised alternative to social logins.

    spellboots, 2013-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Show HN: No More Passwords, Just Email”

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Topics: mozilla persona, authentication, email login, pycon, decentralized identity

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