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I have mixed feelings about key export. :) That is indeed a fair criticism. FWIW, in terms of difficulty setting up, I suspect most developers use libraries fr
by md_ 6y ago
I have mixed feelings about key export. :) That is indeed a fair criticism.
FWIW, in terms of difficulty setting up, I suspect most developers use libraries from people like Okta and Firebase, so the underlying implementation may not be the big differentiator.
There are certainly great examples of non-standards-based approaches beating out the cumbersome/designed-by-committee standard, but they're more common in cases where there are no significant compatibility challenges standing in the way of adoption. For example, any given developer can adopt JSON internally instead of XML, and at some point it reaches critical mass and everyone is using it, including for interchange.
In comparison, SQRL isn't useful until it's widely adopted, and because it's not a standard approach with built-in support on any major platform, nobody is going to use it.
- espadrine 6y agoYes! Identity is at this weird place where the goal of the solution (to have the same thing work everywhere instead of the status quo) cannot gain adoption organically, you need browser buy-in first. Which nowadays basically mean to convince Adam Langley.