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		wmf on July 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in This already exists, but the UX is terrible and there's a chicken-and-egg problem in getting it fixed in every (deployed) browser. http://www.gnegg.ch/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-client-c...

joeyespo on July 14, 2011 [–]

Yeah, even using them over at GitHub (well, pushing with Git over SSH in general) has proven to be a rather steep learning curve for a lot of people. But hey, it's being widely adopted there, so that's a step in the right direction for this.

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