Community Mozilla developers are now developing a new system of authenticating users on the site. According to the team project BrowserID, passwords become unnecessary if the system will be widely spread. In general, to “killer passwords” This project is probably not up yet, but as an alternative to OpenID platform BrowserID is of particular interest.
The principle of operation is quite simple, and as far as we can judge, it is convenient for the end user. The latter should only once to verify your own email address, then this address can be used to access the site. The developers claim that the entry to any site that supports BrowserID, will be possible in just a single click.
This technology uses public key cryptography to verify the email with “Communion,” the browser and the site. This technology is known as “Verified Email Protocol”. In general, the alternatives OpenID quite a lot, but the new technology meets the requirements of Community Mozilla. However, with BrowserID be able to work and users use IE, Safari, Chrome.
Among other advantages of the technology, Mozilla developers call the lack of need to transfer large amounts of information from the user to the site. Thus, any leakage of sensitive data is virtually impossible. Mozilla hopes to standardize their protocol in the near future.
Developers and webmasters who wants to test the protocol in the case, can visit the resource browserid.org. In addition, the demonstration of the login procedure with the use of this protocol is possible on site myfavoritebeer.org.
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