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Mozilla Persona

A decentralised, privacy-respecting sign-in system based on email addresses (BrowserID).

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Why revive it

Its privacy model for login is still better than most of what replaced it.

Revival goal

Reimplement the protocol ideas with modern standards.

Status

Abandoned

The maintainers have explicitly stopped or clearly walked away.

Why it was abandoned

Mozilla shut down the service in 2016; archived in 2019.

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