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Mozilla Offers Alternative To OpenID

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 21, 2012 @01:31AM from the none-shall-pass dept.

Orome1 writes "Mozilla has been working for a while now on a new browser-based system for identifying and authenticating users it calls BrowserID, but it's only this month that all of its sites have finally been outfitted with the technology. Mozilla aims for BrowserID to become a more secure alternative to OpenID, the decentralized authentication system offered to users of popular sites such as Google, Yahoo!, PayPal, MySpace and others."

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Browser based... ugh D: by shish · 2012-01-21 04:31 · Score: 4, Interesting

a new browser-based system
The only problem I have with OpenID is that it's so web-centric it's a pain in the ass to implement for native apps. Could we please have a distributed ID system that *can* use a web browser, but doesn't *require* one?

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