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Aha, it's for Bootstrapping! Awesome, good to hear. I saw the thing about Identity Providers and got excited, but then I logged in and was like... aww.. So, h

Aha, it's for Bootstrapping! Awesome, good to hear. I saw the thing about Identity Providers and got excited, but then I logged in and was like... aww.. So, hopefully Google will be doing it soon with Gmail/Google Apps!

callahad 14y ago
We're going to build a Persona <-> Gmail OpenID bridge soon. Probably launching in May or June. It'll almost be like Google supports it directly. :) After that will come Google Apps support.
- basicallydan 14y ago
  You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I'll submit a feature request to Spotify to get them to support Persona log in. When Gmail and Spotify are gone I'll be two big steps closer to getting rid of that pesky Facebook account ;)
  - StavrosK 14y ago
    Why, do you have an @spotify.com email address? :P
- StavrosK 14y ago
  Yeah but your bridge will still know where I log in, no? I mean, it's great, but it would be even greater if Google supported it natively.
  - AndrewDucker 14y ago
    Hopefully Google will do so - and then the bridge can be turned off!
    - StavrosK 14y ago
      Hear, hear. EDIT: Oh, can I help beta test it?
    - callahad 14y ago
      We wouldn't even have to turn it off -- as soon as gmail.com can vouch for its own users, the protocol automatically and preferentially switches over to that. The centralized parts fall away on their own whenever they can. :)
  - callahad 14y ago
    Actually, it won't. You'll OpenID auth into google.login.persona.org, and then get a straight up Persona certificate signed by that fallback, along with all of the privacy safeguards that has.
    - StavrosK 14y ago
      Oh, very nice. Is there a way to get in the beta?
      - callahad 14y ago
        Honestly, we haven't quite figured out a good way to do a "beta" or partial roll-out for this without breaking other users. Yaaaay decentralization! Instead, we'll be extensively QA'ing it in testing environments, and then we'll flip a big switch to enable it for everyone.

callahad 14y ago

We're going to build a Persona <-> Gmail OpenID bridge soon. Probably launching in May or June. It'll almost be like Google supports it directly. :) After that will come Google Apps support.

basicallydan 14y ago
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I'll submit a feature request to Spotify to get them to support Persona log in. When Gmail and Spotify are gone I'll be two big steps closer to getting rid of that pesky Facebook account ;)
- StavrosK 14y ago
  Why, do you have an @spotify.com email address? :P
StavrosK 14y ago
Yeah but your bridge will still know where I log in, no? I mean, it's great, but it would be even greater if Google supported it natively.
- AndrewDucker 14y ago
  Hopefully Google will do so - and then the bridge can be turned off!
  - StavrosK 14y ago
    Hear, hear. EDIT: Oh, can I help beta test it?
  - callahad 14y ago
    We wouldn't even have to turn it off -- as soon as gmail.com can vouch for its own users, the protocol automatically and preferentially switches over to that. The centralized parts fall away on their own whenever they can. :)
- callahad 14y ago
  Actually, it won't. You'll OpenID auth into google.login.persona.org, and then get a straight up Persona certificate signed by that fallback, along with all of the privacy safeguards that has.
  - StavrosK 14y ago
    Oh, very nice. Is there a way to get in the beta?
    - callahad 14y ago
      Honestly, we haven't quite figured out a good way to do a "beta" or partial roll-out for this without breaking other users. Yaaaay decentralization! Instead, we'll be extensively QA'ing it in testing environments, and then we'll flip a big switch to enable it for everyone.