FWIW:  BrowserID is now Mozilla Persona… and it is very awesome… especially if 
you understand how the security works by making it impossible for your IDP to 
track where you are logging in at (as opposed to OpenID and OAuth).

I use the plugin for my project (Learning Registry), however I strongly 
recommend that you NOT use the included browserid.js in your CouchApps or web 
apps, and link to the one provided by Mozilla.  They change it frequently 
enough that I've had it break authentication on more than one occasion which 
which required hacking the plugin.  The include is available via http and https.

- Jim

Jim Klo
Senior Software Engineer
Center for Software Engineering
SRI International
t.      @nsomnac

On Jan 25, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]>
 wrote:

> 
> On Jan 25, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Pulkit Singhal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> @ Marcus - Thank you for your strong affirmation. I suppose I might have
>> let the lack of "we have email confirmation" being spelled out on the main
>> read me page, throw me off.
> 
> BrowserID addresses _are_ email addresses, and the authentication is based on 
> verifying ownership of the address. So any ID you get through BrowserID login 
> is a verified email address.
> 
> BrowserID is very cool; I’ve been adding support to TouchDB and the Couchbase 
> Sync Gateway (aka BaseCouch).
> 
> —Jens

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