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Mozilla tells Persona single sign-on to singularly sign off
Never heard of it? Never will do, either
Mozilla is abandoning Persona, its attempt at single sign-on, setting a November end-of-life date for the service.
The laudable idea was that instead of an SSO beholden to the likes of Facebook's OAuth, users of persona.org (originally launched as BrowserID) would get similar functionality without the privacy invasion.
Users didn't adopt the service in any number, even after Mozilla opened it up as a community project with staff to help things along.
"Due to low, declining usage, we are reallocating the project's dedicated, ongoing resources and will shut down the persona.org services that we run," the group has posted, with 30 November set down for the farewell party.
"This includes the persona.org website, the javascript shim, the fallback IdP and identity bridges, and the hosted verifier," the post notes. Mozilla will delete all personal data associated with Persona services.
The code for Persona is open-source, making it feasible (but unlikely) that other sites using it will maintain it. Meanwhile, Mozilla reckons it'll take another tilt at delegated authentication this year via Firefox Accounts. ®
Biting the hand that feeds IT
