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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.
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March 26, 2013, 10:08:16 AM |
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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.
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March 26, 2013, 10:10:21 AM |
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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.
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March 26, 2013, 11:37:53 AM |
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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.
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March 26, 2013, 11:41:13 AM |
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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?
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March 26, 2013, 11:53:11 AM |
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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?
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March 26, 2013, 12:36:58 PM |
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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/
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March 26, 2013, 04:37:38 PM |
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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...
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March 26, 2013, 07:32:40 PM |
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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.
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March 26, 2013, 07:36:32 PM |
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I think it's a bad idea if 2 factor authentication isn't in place.
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April 28, 2013, 10:59:31 AM |
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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.
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April 29, 2013, 08:56:52 AM |
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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.
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