persona-gmail-bridge

An experiment in building a minimal identity bridge for Gmail

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Aug 5	2013-08-05 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC	3	3
Aug 12	2013-08-12 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 19	2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC	2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 26	2013-08-26 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 2	2013-09-02 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 9	2013-09-09 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 16	2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 23	2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC	2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 30	2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 7	2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 14	2013-10-14 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 21	2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC	2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 28	2013-10-28 00:00:00 UTC	2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 4	2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC	2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 11	2013-11-11 00:00:00 UTC	2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 18	2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC	2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 25	2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 2	2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 9	2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 16	2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 23	2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 30	2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 6	2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 13	2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 20	2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 27	2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC	2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 3	2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC	2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Feb 10	2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC	2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 17	2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC	2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 24	2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC	2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 3	2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC	2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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jdlshore·Mar 8, 2014

The projects are on GitHub: The main Persona project: https://github.com/mozilla/persona The Gmail bridge: https://github.com/mozilla/persona-gmail-bridge The Yahoo bridge: https://github.com/mozilla/persona-yahoo-bridge (I'm not affiliated with the project, just a long-time user.)

In Transitioning Persona to Community Ownership

timmclean·Feb 4, 2014

I found this: https://github.com/mozilla/persona-gmail-bridge/pull/114

In Why we love Mozilla Persona

seanmonstar·Aug 8, 2013

Whichever technology you want to use is fine. You need to publish 3 routes: /.well-known/browserid, an auth route, and a provision route. The auth and provision routes need to be HTML pages that authenticate you however you want, and then sign a certificate with your key that you publish the .well-known file. Here's how we did it for Gmail: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-sideshow/blob/master/bi...

In Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users

callahad·Aug 8, 2013

Check out the docs under the "Identity Providers" heading here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Persona Shane Tomlinson and I gave a talk about turning your own domain into a Identity Provider at FOSDEM this year, which might be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRq9LWnlBw Also, if you'd like to source dive: - Minimal, static, Mailinator-style IdP: https://github.com/callahad/mockmyid/ - Minimal standalone IdP: https://github.com/mozilla/eyedee.me/ - Mozilla Employee (LDAP) IdP: https://github.com/mozilla/vinz-clortho - GMail Bridge: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-sideshow And there's a Drupal module: https://drupal.org/project/browserid_idp

In Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users

callahad·Aug 8, 2013

myname+website@gmail.com should absolutely work -- please file a bug if not: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-sideshow/issues/new

In Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users