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persona

Persona is a secure, distributed, and easy to use identification system.

27Distinct people
46Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.8KGitHub stars
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Persona is a secure, distributed, and easy to use identification system.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year46 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-07-15 00:17:16 UTC to 2024-03-29 15:04:33 UTC.

0510152011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 0 submissions, 16 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 0 submissions, 15 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16016
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15015
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
This repository contains the core Mozilla Persona services. Persona is a login system based on the BrowserID protocol. To learn about using Persona on your site, check out our documentation on MDN. Repository Contents This repository contains several projects related to Persona: The Persona Fallback IdP: A fallback Identity Provider (IdP) for users without native support for Persona via their email provider. Written in node.js, hosted at https://login.persona.org. The Persona Remote Verification Service: A stateless node.js server which handles cryptographic verification of identity assertions. Hosted at verifier.login.persona.org, but easy to run locally. The Cross-Browser Persona Support Library: The include.js file that provides the navigator.id API for browsers without native support for Persona. This also includes the code for the dialog shown to users of those browsers. Sample and Test Code: For all of the above. Getting Started The Persona team uses Git and GitHub for all of our development and issue tracking. If you'd like to contribute code back to us, please do so using a Pull Request. If you get stuck and need help, you can find the core team on our public mailing list or in #identity on irc.mozilla.org. Install Dependencies BrowserID needs the following dependencies before it can run: node.js (>= 0.8.11) libgmp3 g++ For detailed instructions for your specific operating system, check out the SETUP docs in the docs/ folder. Running BrowserID Locally To run the BrowserID service locally: Clone the repository to your machine. Run npm install from the root of your clone. Run npm start from the root of your clone. When you run npm start, it will print several URLs to your terminal. You can test that everything is working by visiting the URL for the example (RP) site. Look for a line like this in the terminal: example (10361): running on http://127.0.0.1:10001 You can stop the services by typing Control-C in the terminal. Staying Up to Date To stay up to date with BrowserID: Use git pull to retrieve new changes. Delete both the var and node_modules folders in the root of your local clone. Run npm install from the root of your local clone. Testing Local testing: Unit tests can be run by invoking npm test at the top level. At present, there are three classes of unit tests to be run: Backend unit tests against a custom, zero-dependency JSON database. Backend unit tests against MySQL, what we use in production. Frontend unit tests run headlessly against PhantomJS. You can control which tests are run using the WHAT_TESTS env var, see scripts/test for details. Continuous Integration Testing: Integration tests are done with Travis-CI. It is recommended that you setup Travis-CI for your BrowserID fork so that tests are automatically run when you push changes. This will give the BrowserID team confidence that your changes both function correctly and do not cause regressions in other parts of the code. Configuration files are already included in the repo but some setup is necessary. Sign in to GitHub Open Travis-CI Click "Sign in with GitHub" if you are not signed in. If you are signed in, click on your username then "Profile" and go to step 5. Click "Allow" if this is your first time signing in. Find "browserid" in "Your Repositories" Move the switch from "OFF" to "ON" Open your fork of BrowserID on GitHub Click the "Settings" button Click "Service Hooks" and find the "Travis" Service Hook Paste in your "Token" which you can find it on your Travis-CI Profile. Ensure that "Travis" has a green radio button Push to your fork and return to Travis-CI. Watch the tests run. LICENSE All source code here is available under the MPL 2.0 license, unless otherwise indicated.
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