(not in reply to any one mail in particular)

+1 on shipping a first version with support for the official Persona
service.

Let’s wait for concrete feature requests for “offline” scenarios,
should they emerge.

Jan
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On Jul 29, 2013, at 11:03 , Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks, Jim. That is basically my plan. To be clear, I would ship
>> "outsourced mode" (browserid.org hosted JavaScript and verification)
>> in a CouchDB release. It's just that I would work to get "tinfoil hat
>> mode" added in for a subsequent release. Outsourced mode already
>> exists (modulo a rewrite and unit tests) as a plugin, but I want to
>> merge it in.
> 
> Running the verification inside CouchDB is very sane. It looks like
> local verification will be the recommended approach anyway in the near
> future.
> 
>> I am not sure if I understand you exactly. Persona is a three-party
>> protocol between users, relying parties (RPs) and identity providers
>> (IdPs). I am talking about RP support for CouchDB. AFAIK there is a
>> bit of mere-mortal cypto to do but it does not require IdP support.
> 
> Your tinfoil hat mode is a bit weird. If you're doing disconnected
> operation, you can only connect to Identity Providers inside the LAN,
> so general RP support becomes impossible, so it's a pretty crippled
> setup.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dirkjan

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