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Why? Firefox already stores passwords in a local database and it wouldn't be that hard to automatically log users into sites. The method they describe here re
by dhx 15y ago
Why?
Firefox already stores passwords in a local database and it wouldn't be that hard to automatically log users into sites.
The method they describe here requires every web site be changed and requires cross-domain JavaScript to be enabled such that browserid.org will know which websites you visit. You _could_ place include.js on your local domain to avoid this issue. However history has shown that sites will tend to just cross-domain link to googleapis or yahooapis.
Additionally, this is yet another web authentication method that should probably be handled at a lower level in the stack -- either the HTTP protocol, transport layer (TLS) or perhaps in the future, by using IPSec.
- mattmanser 15y agolocal database That's why.
- icebraining 15y agoUh, from the "How BrowserID works" page: The user stores the keypair and certificate locally.
- gcp 15y agoBecause you don't need to create an account on each and every site you visited (together with decoding a similar number of CAPTCHA's, etc)
- icebraining 15y agoAnd more importantly than decoding Captchas - with B-ID there's no need to verify the damn email each time you register.