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I had to create an account a couple of days ago because it was the only way to log in to openphoto.me. Are there any clear differences between BrowserID and Ope

I had to create an account a couple of days ago because it was the only way to log in to openphoto.me. Are there any clear differences between BrowserID and OpenID?

jmathai 15y ago
The clearest difference in my mind is that BrowserID is much easier for a user to grasp. An email address is something users already associate with their identity. As far as OpenPhoto, we're pushing BrowserID because we think it's a much better authentication system than something like Facebook Connect. It's open, distributed and secure. We do have FB Connect plugins for OpenPhoto but we believe that defaultly using BrowserID is the right thing to do. http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/13914931003/the-internet-needs-browserid-a-plea-to-developers http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/13914931003/the-int...
thristian 15y ago
OpenID requires the user to remember what sites they have accounts on that provide OpenID authentication, and requires them to remember their authentication information for those sites every time they want to log into an OpenID-using site. In its current form, BrowserID requires the user to do the email-verification dance once for each email address they want to authenticate as, and from then on they can just pick it from a list instead of doing the dance yet again. In its ideal form, once the BrowserID API is implemented directly in browsers and webmail systems (instead of the shim at browserid.org), the user doesn't need to remember anything: they click "sign in" on the web-page, the browser brings up its standard 'pick an email address to authenticate as' dialog (populated from all the webmail sites the user has logged into), the user selects one from the list, and off they go.
- sp332 15y ago
  I don' really need a foo@browserid.org address to register there right? So I could actually get the same email address verified through multiple providers. How would the browser know which one I actually want to use?
  - zobzu 15y ago
    you can use the email you like you select which of your registered email you want to use at first sign in (sign in that doesnt require password)

I had to create an account a couple of days ago because it was the only way to log in to openphoto.me. Are there any clear differences between BrowserID and OpenID?

jmathai 15y ago

The clearest difference in my mind is that BrowserID is much easier for a user to grasp. An email address is something users already associate with their identity. As far as OpenPhoto, we're pushing BrowserID because we think it's a much better authentication system than something like Facebook Connect. It's open, distributed and secure. We do have FB Connect plugins for OpenPhoto but we believe that defaultly using BrowserID is the right thing to do. http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/13914931003/the-internet-needs-browserid-a-plea-to-developers http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/13914931003/the-int...

thristian 15y ago

OpenID requires the user to remember what sites they have accounts on that provide OpenID authentication, and requires them to remember their authentication information for those sites every time they want to log into an OpenID-using site. In its current form, BrowserID requires the user to do the email-verification dance once for each email address they want to authenticate as, and from then on they can just pick it from a list instead of doing the dance yet again. In its ideal form, once the BrowserID API is implemented directly in browsers and webmail systems (instead of the shim at browserid.org), the user doesn't need to remember anything: they click "sign in" on the web-page, the browser brings up its standard 'pick an email address to authenticate as' dialog (populated from all the webmail sites the user has logged into), the user selects one from the list, and off they go.

sp332 15y ago
I don' really need a foo@browserid.org address to register there right? So I could actually get the same email address verified through multiple providers. How would the browser know which one I actually want to use?
- zobzu 15y ago
  you can use the email you like you select which of your registered email you want to use at first sign in (sign in that doesnt require password)