[scrollaway]

Mozilla Persona is the right approach to authentication. Unfortunately, Mozilla sucks more at marketing than Microsoft did in the late 90s and Persona got near null interest from developers that weren't already concerned by the very real dangers of OAuth and the uprise of Facebook/Twitter authentication.

Persona is still there. It's still maintained, despite getting no funding, but that doesn't mean developers can't pick it up. If you are interested in authentication, learn about it. Implement it. Support it. Convert people.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona

[StavrosK]

Persona is fantastic, highly, highly recommended. If you have a web app, please look into integrating Persona, at least as an alternative.

[ForHackernews]

Are there any client libraries available for Persona? Ruby, Python, JavaScript, C#?

Edit: Found this - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona/Libraries_and_pl...

[fiatjaf]

Plus, if you use Persona, your users get automatic Google OpenID Connect (and others).

[ForHackernews]

Howso?