On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM Reilly Grant <reil...@chromium.org> wrote:
> There's been some discussion recently on chromium-dev@ about a new phone > number verification mechanism using flash calls. > Ah, that's pretty neat! I'll check out and report back what I learn from it! > I'm curious if there's interest in expanding this work on email > verification to include both email addresses and phone numbers. > I think there are a lot of similarities and intersections from a use case perspective, but I think the mechanisms are pretty different. I'll keep an eye as we go along. > > Unrelatedly, as someone who hosts their own email I'm curious if there are > reference implementations available for the email provider side of this > system. > I'd love to play around with this API and want to be sure it's not limited > to users of the major email providers. > This is a bit early, so there aren't any reference implementations yet. I'm personally using this on my own email servers too successfully for testing/development and I'd be happy to make the code available for others to try. WIll report back here too as this moves along and gets more stable! > Reilly Grant | Software Engineer | reil...@chromium.org | Google Chrome > <https://www.google.com/chrome> > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM Chromestatus < > ad...@cr-status.appspotmail.com> wrote: > >> Contact emails g...@google.com >> >> Explainer https://github.com/dickhardt/email-verification-protocol >> >> Specification None >> >> Summary >> >> The EVP (email verification protocol) helps users create, access and >> recover accounts by providing cryptographic proof that they own an email >> address, rather than having to manually verify email addresses with magic >> links. https://github.com/dickhardt/email-verification-protocol >> >> >> Blink component Blink>Identity >> <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3EIdentity%22> >> >> Web Feature ID Missing feature >> >> Motivation >> >> Verifying email addresses on the web today involves receiving magic link >> and proving that you have access to the email inbox. This is cumbersome for >> users and inefficient for developers: emails can take a while to arrive, >> can get into SPAM folders and users have to switch applications to verify >> them. >> >> >> Initial public proposal >> https://github.com/dickhardt/email-verification-protocol >> >> TAG review None >> >> TAG review status Pending >> >> Risks >> >> >> Interoperability and Compatibility >> >> None >> >> >> *Gecko*: No signal >> >> *WebKit*: No signal >> >> *Web developers*: No signals >> >> *Other signals*: >> >> WebView application risks >> >> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that >> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? >> >> None >> >> >> Debuggability >> >> None >> >> >> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests >> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> >> ? No >> >> Flag name on about://flags None >> >> Finch feature name None >> >> Non-finch justification None >> >> Requires code in //chrome? False >> >> Estimated milestones >> >> No milestones specified >> >> >> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status >> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5205725253074944?gate=5165657771606016 >> >> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status >> <https://chromestatus.com>. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "blink-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/68bb77c8.050a0220.257801.0191.GAE%40google.com >> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/68bb77c8.050a0220.257801.0191.GAE%40google.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAMtUnc5GXYhL_zXTJ04YCWOubwV6omYOFdO0%2BZ02T6cifPpUaw%40mail.gmail.com.
