Re: Mozilla Persona, lessons learned

On 2014-02-21 22:50, Manu Sporny wrote:
> On 02/18/2014 11:01 AM, Kumar McMillan wrote:
>> I wasn't on the Persona team so I can't offer much more insight than 
>> what's on that wiki page.
> 
> Here's some more from the Persona team. They've all been re-assigned and
> Persona will go into maintenance mode. It's not being decommissioned,
> but Mozilla is no longer putting paid engineers behind future development:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.identity/Qnxt8lmOEeo/fVtJrMDfOjMJ
> 
> This decision impacts this community and the work we're doing here. I've
> reached out to Dan Callahan and offered our thanks for their work on
> Persona. It's not the end of the project, but Mozilla is not going to be
> pushing it further than it has to date. We needed new features added to
> Persona, but that work is going to have to come from the Persona or Web
> Payments community. We'll wait for the dust to settle and figure out a
> plan going forward for a login solution for Web Payments.
> 
> Until then, we'll wait for Dan and the rest of the ex-Persona team to
> publish their blog post on the current status and future of the
> Persona project.

To me this quite puzzling.  If the Mozillians had checked around a bit
they would have noted that the PKI-solutions featured in browsers (all of them)
in most (if not all) cases involving consumers is replaced by custom SW.

Due to the outlawing of plugins, the new solutions aren't even building on the web.

And <keygen> is almost 20 years old.

I might as well implement SKS/KeyGen2 since there is nothing else cooking?
https://openkeystore.googlecode.com/svn/resources/trunk/docs/keygen2.html

Anders

> 
> -- manu
>

Received on Saturday, 22 February 2014 04:16:39 UTC