On 03/12/2016 10:40 PM, Jonathan N. Little wrote: > Ricardo Palomares Martínez wrote: >> Similar, but not exactly that reason. Google is promoting its own >> protocol for authentications, on the basis that the current scheme of >> login + password is flawed. It may or may not be true (I read it some >> time ago, and I don't really like it too much). The protocol is not >> closed (Google is, AFAIK, not asking for money for sites or services >> wanting to use it), so it is more like Google wants to be recognized >> for being the author of a critical shift in how services authenticate. > > What protocol?
OAuth2 > Currently using SSL/StartTLS, In this context SSL/TLS has got nothing to do with the way you authenticate to your Gmail account. > do you mean TLS 1.0? IIRC No. > Mozilla tried disabling it by default, but it broke too many websites so > folk could do things like online banking... Or is this some special > protocol where Chrome takes a DNS sample? ;-) It is scary how you arbitrarily throw in new terms completely out of context. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
