ID: IRCNE2011071189
Date: 2011-07-19
Software developer - Mozilla has announced its Browser ID project to allow users to log into any site with a single signon method.
Browser ID is an experimental project where a single email address and password will let you sign into any web site on the internet. Browser ID will verify your email address and vouch for your ownership of it for a "streamlined one-click experience".
Dan Mills of Mozilla Labs said, "Browser ID makes it easy to sign into websites. No longer do you have to pick some arbitrary user name and make up a complicated password that's so easy to forget."
Essentially you get Browser ID, add an email address to it and choose one password. You then verify this email address using the 'Verified Email Protocol' and then Browser ID will let you sign in to any web site using that email address.
When you visit a web site that requires a log in, Browser ID will pop up when you click 'sign in' or the equivalent button. You then select what email address you want to sign in with and Browser ID does the rest.
Your one password for Browser ID will replace the password for every web site you use. Mozilla said in its blog that "email providers can implement BrowserID support to make the system even easier for their users."
You can add more than one email address if you wish. Mozilla has decided to not lock Browser ID to Firefox, so it will work with all modern web browsers.
If you're wondering whether this method is secure, Mozilla claims Browser ID does not leak details back to any server, including the Browser ID server, about what web sites you visit.
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