Mozilla is developing an alternative to OpenID

The Mozilla developer community is currently developing a new user authorization system for websites. According to representatives of the development team of the BrowserID project, passwords will become unnecessary if the system becomes widespread. In general, this project probably still does not reach the “password killer”, but the BrowserID platform is of some interest as an alternative to OpenID.

The principle of operation is quite simple, and, as far as one can judge, is convenient for the end user. The latter should only once verify its own email address, after which this address can be used to access sites. The developers claim that logging into any site that supports BrowserID will be possible in just one click.

This technology uses public key cryptography to verify the user's email when the browser and the site “communicate”. This technology is known as the “Verified Email Protocol”. In general, there are a lot of alternatives to OpenID, but the new technology meets the requirements of the Mozilla community. Nevertheless, users using IE, Safari, Chrome will be able to work with BrowserID.

Among other advantages of their technology, Mozilla developers call the absence of the need to transfer a large amount of information from the user to the site. Thus, the leakage of any important data becomes almost impossible. Mozilla hopes to standardize its protocol soon.

Developers and webmasters who want to try the protocol in action can visit the resourcebrowserid.org . In addition, a demonstration of the login procedure using this protocol is available at myfavoritebeer.org .

Via digitaltrends