Mozilla is developing an alternative to OpenID

The Mozilla developer community is currently developing a new user authorization system for websites. According to representatives of the development team of the BrowserID project, passwords will become unnecessary if the system is widely distributed. In general, this project probably still doesn’t make it to “password killer”, but as an alternative to OpenID, the BrowserID platform is of some interest.

The principle of operation is quite simple, and, as far as can be judged, is convenient for the end user. The latter must verify its own e-mail address only once, after which this address can be used to access the sites. The developers claim that access to any website that supports BrowserID will be possible in just one click.
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This technology uses public key cryptography to verify the user's email when the browser and the site “communicate”. This technology is known as “Verified Email Protocol”. In general, there are quite a few alternatives to OpenID, but the new technology meets the requirements of the Mozilla community. However, users who use IE, Safari, Chrome will be able to work with BrowserID.

Among other advantages of its technology, Mozilla developers say that there is no need to transfer a large amount of information from the user to the site. Thus, the leakage of any important data becomes almost impossible. Mozilla hopes to standardize its protocol soon.

Developers and webmasters who wish to test the protocol in action can visit the resource browserid.org . In addition, a demonstration of the login procedure using this protocol is possible on the site myfavoritebeer.org .

Via digitaltrends