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It actually is decentralized, in the sense that anyone can implement a BrowserID provider.
by jdunck 15y ago
It actually is decentralized, in the sense that anyone can implement a BrowserID provider.
- superuser2 15y agoAnyone can, but from the looks of it, a site chooses to trust one at a time.
- bct 15y agoThere are two separate things here. Using the terminology from http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works , you have: 1. Primary Identity Authority. This is a host (i.e. the one in your email address) that supports BrowserId. This is fully decentralized. 2. Implementation Provider/Secondary Identity Authority. For now the site has to choose one to trust, but once your browser has support it becomes the IP, and when your host becames a PIA there's no need for an SIA.