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		superuser2 on Feb 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, mi... Dpesn't Mozilla hold the map of emails->passwords for Mozilla Persona? That's pretty centralized to me.

mixedbit on Feb 28, 2013 [–]

Any domain can authenticate its users, Mozilla acts as a fallback if a domain does not do this. At this moment most domains do not directly support Persona authentication, so almost always the fallback is used, but the system is decentralized by design.

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