Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 9 August 2013 13:59, Wendell wrote: > We have been discussing something like this over here too, as well as > exploring more esoteric blockchain+signature-based "SSO" implementations as > discussed by John Light and others. > I've been using SSO for years using an X.509 private key in my brow

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 9 August 2013 14:08, Mike Hearn wrote: > Bitcoin sought to reduce dependence on trusted third parties, where as, >> persona is increasing the reach of trusted third parties. The keys and >> passwords are stored on mozilla's servers, sometimes on your email >> providers. Persona, is however,

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
> > Bitcoin sought to reduce dependence on trusted third parties, where as, > persona is increasing the reach of trusted third parties. The keys and > passwords are stored on mozilla's servers, sometimes on your email > providers. Persona, is however, a progression and will hopefully improve > it

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
We have been discussing something like this over here too, as well as exploring more esoteric blockchain+signature-based "SSO" implementations as discussed by John Light and others. One of our long-term ambitions with Hive is to provide a (mostly) user-transparent, decentralized authentication

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 9 August 2013 13:43, Mike Hearn wrote: > This is just me making notes for myself, I'm not seriously suggesting this > be implemented any time soon. > > Mozilla Persona is an infrastructure for web based single sign on. It > works by having email providers sign temporary certificates for their