"Sign in with BitcoinTalk"

[dree12]

I have no idea how to implement this, but I thought it would be cool if the forum provided an API that allowed websites to add a "Sign in with BitcoinTalk account" feature. BitcoinTalk is the premiere Bitcoin community website, and it would be much more convenient for a Bitcoin-related website to simply bootstrap on a BitcoinTalk account.

[Liam W]

I have no idea how to implement this, but I thought it would be cool if the forum provided an API that allowed websites to add a "Sign in with BitcoinTalk account" feature. BitcoinTalk is the premiere Bitcoin community website, and it would be much more convenient for a Bitcoin-related website to simply bootstrap on a BitcoinTalk account.

Maybe if they added OpenID Support and became an OpenID provider? There must be an SMF mod that can do this, surely.

[Matthew N. Wright]

I have no idea how to implement this, but I thought it would be cool if the forum provided an API that allowed websites to add a "Sign in with BitcoinTalk account" feature. BitcoinTalk is the premiere Bitcoin community website, and it would be much more convenient for a Bitcoin-related website to simply bootstrap on a BitcoinTalk account.

I had messaged theymos about this back in 2011 because I thought it would make reputation on other sites a simpler matter but it was batted down.

I think it's worth revisiting.

[Matthew N. Wright]

Instead, people are forced to make workarounds like this one https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117725.0;topicseen

(Sorry for the second post, can't edit my posts)

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

We are going to have another disaster if bitcoin services become more centralized. Blockchain.info API/Coinbase/MtGox/BitPay/Walletbit whatever going down should not mean 20% of bitcoin merchants and sites going down. We don't need more sites integrating into each other at this point.

Plus, many people who use bitcoin do not have a forum account. They might read, they might chat on IRC, or catch up with the latest news on reddit or just only learn of headlines from sites they visit.

[Matthew N. Wright]

We are going to have a disaster if bitcoin services become decentralized. Blockchain.info APICoinbase/MtGox/BitPay/Walletbit whatever going down should not mean 20% of bitcoin merchants and sites going down. We don't need more sites integrating into each other at this point.

Well, in that case, why not have a Chrome plugin that holds a PGP key and uses that automatically for cross website logins, and the service would merely confirm with bitcointalk or another known site that that was the true owner of a signed key for example?

[Liam W]

We are going to have a disaster if bitcoin services become decentralized. Blockchain.info APICoinbase/MtGox/BitPay/Walletbit whatever going down should not mean 20% of bitcoin merchants and sites going down. We don't need more sites integrating into each other at this point.

Well, in that case, why not have a Chrome plugin that holds a PGP key and uses that automatically for cross website logins, and the service would merely confirm with bitcointalk or another known site that that was the true owner of a signed key for example?

I use chrome, but what about the people that don't?

[justusranvier]

Well, in that case, why not have a Chrome plugin that holds a PGP key and uses that automatically for cross website logins, and the service would merely confirm with bitcointalk or another known site that that was the true owner of a signed key for example?

http://gpgauth.org/

[rebuilder]

I have no idea how to implement this, but I thought it would be cool if the forum provided an API that allowed websites to add a "Sign in with BitcoinTalk account" feature. BitcoinTalk is the premiere Bitcoin community website, and it would be much more convenient for a Bitcoin-related website to simply bootstrap on a BitcoinTalk account.

Were you around when the password hashes for this forum were compromised? Not such a big deal then, but if the same login also controls other services...

[dree12]

I have no idea how to implement this, but I thought it would be cool if the forum provided an API that allowed websites to add a "Sign in with BitcoinTalk account" feature. BitcoinTalk is the premiere Bitcoin community website, and it would be much more convenient for a Bitcoin-related website to simply bootstrap on a BitcoinTalk account.

Were you around when the password hashes for this forum were compromised? Not such a big deal then, but if the same login also controls other services...

I was, but the forum is more secure now.

[tysat]

I think it's a bad idea if 2 factor authentication isn't in place.

[falschgeld]

I think that we don't need yet another IdP and OpenID in particular is a bad idea because it's too confusing. People just can't think of a URL as their identity.

What about implementing Mozilla Persona ( http://persona.org/ ) as a relying party? I think it's the SSO system of the future.

[greyhawk]

I have no idea how to implement this, but I thought it would be cool if the forum provided an API that allowed websites to add a "Sign in with BitcoinTalk account" feature. BitcoinTalk is the premiere Bitcoin community website, and it would be much more convenient for a Bitcoin-related website to simply bootstrap on a BitcoinTalk account.

Were you around when the password hashes for this forum were compromised? Not such a big deal then, but if the same login also controls other services...

I was, but the forum is more secure now.

The forum runs on a 4 year old implementation of SMF 1. No, it's not secure.