Persona is living proof that federated authentication on the Web can be more safe, usable, and private. With that framework in place, Mozilla has reallocated Persona’s full-time developers to other projects, entrusting Persona’s ongoing development to its community. There are no plans to decommission Persona. If it fits your needs, please use it. We will support you. Specifically, Mozilla staff wi

You’ve probably heard about Firefox OS, Mozilla’s major effort to create a free mobile phone ecosystem using HTML5 as the one platform you need to develop rich mobile apps. You can expect Firefox OS phones in stores in South America later this year. What you may not yet know is that we built Persona into Firefox OS. When invoked on Firefox OS, Persona presents a natively-optimized, trusted interfa

Mozilla Persona is a way to sign into websites that works with any email address. Today, we’re happy to announce a new Persona Identity Bridge for Gmail users. This means that every Gmail user can now sign into Persona-powered websites with just a few clicks using their existing account credentials. No new password required. Check it out: Combined with our Identity Bridge for Yahoo, Persona now na

This past year we’ve been building the core of a Web-scale identity system. We’ve been calling it BrowserID: our name both for the technology1 and the Mozilla service that implements the technology. Today we’d like to introduce Mozilla Persona, our new name for the complete Identity offering from Mozilla: a collection of components and experiences we’re designing to manage the whole of a user’s on

Last week we pushed out a BrowserID feature that gets us closer to the decentralized identity system we envision for the Web. But more than that, it enables a truly awesome user experience—registration flows go from 8 screens to one simple sign-in. Seriously! See for yourself: Chicken or egg Some context: Building a distributed system is a chicken and egg problem - you have to design a system that

We’ve received a lot of very useful feedback on the Mozilla Labs’ BrowserID project. We want to take a moment to focus on the privacy aspects of BrowserID and what we’re trying to accomplish. For background information, you may want to skim our original announcement and Lloyd Hilaiel’s explanation of how BrowserID works. We designed the BrowserID experiment to increase user convenience and safety

We launched Mozilla Labs’ online identity experiment, BrowserID, only 24 hours ago, and the feedback has been incredibly useful already. At Mozilla, we believe in empowering individuals to shape their online experience. Our work on a decentralized identity solution for the Web matches that mission well. Also, because we believe that transparent community-based processes promote participation, acco

Today we’re excited to announce BrowserID: an experimental new way of signing into websites. Our goal with BrowserID was to design something safe and easy for users and the developers. We’d love for you to try it out and let us know what you think. Why BrowserID? For a Web developer, creating a new application always involves an annoying hurdle: how do users sign in? An email address with a confir