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  <p><strong>Stay in touch or get help!</strong></p>
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<p><a class="link-https" href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/" title="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/">Mozilla Persona</a> is a completely decentralized and secure authentication system for the web based on the open BrowserID protocol. To ensure that Persona works everywhere and for everyone, Mozilla currently operates a small suite of <a href="/en-US/docs/Persona/Bootstrapping_Persona" title="/en-US/docs/Persona/Bootstrapping_Persona">optional, centralized services</a> related to Persona.</p>
<p>Why should you and your site use Persona?</p>
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  <li><strong>Persona completely eliminates site-specific passwords</strong>, freeing users and websites from the burden of creating, managing, and securely storing passwords.</li>
  <li><strong>Persona is easy to use.</strong> With just two clicks a Persona user can sign into a new site like <a href="https://voo.st" title="https://voo.st">Voost</a> or <a href="https://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/" title="https://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/">The Times Crossword</a>, bypassing the friction associated with account creation.</li>
  <li><strong>Persona is easy to implement</strong><strong>. </strong>Developers can add Persona to a site in a single afternoon.</li>
  <li>Best of all, there's <strong>no lock-in</strong>. Developers get a verified email address for all of their users, and users can use any email address with Persona.</li>
  <li><strong>Persona is built on the BrowserID protocol. </strong>Once popular browser vendors implement BrowserID, <b>they will no longer need to rely on Mozilla to log in.</b></li>
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<p>Read on to get started!</p>
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  <strong>Note:</strong> Persona is in active development. Follow <a class="external" href="https://identity.mozilla.com/" title="https://identity.mozilla.com/">our blog</a> to learn about new features, or join <a class="link-https" href="https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-identity" title="https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-identity">our mailing list</a> and offer your feedback!</div>
<h2 id="Using_Persona_on_your_site">Using Persona on your site</h2>
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        <h3 id="Getting_started">Getting started</h3>
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          <dt>
            <a href="/en-US/docs/Persona/Why_Persona" title="en/BrowserID/Why_BrowserID">Why Persona?</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Learn about reasons to support Persona on your site, and how it compares to other identity and authentication systems.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/Persona/Quick_Setup" title="BrowserID/Quick setup">Quick setup</a></dt>
          <dd>
            A quick walkthrough showing how to add Persona to your website.</dd>
        </dl>
      </td>
      <td>
        <h3 id="Persona_API_reference">Persona API reference</h3>
        <dl>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/DOM/navigator.id" title="navigator.id">The navigator.id API reference</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Reference for the <code>navigator.id</code> object, which web developers can use to integrate Persona into sites.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/Persona/Remote_Verification_API" title="en/BrowserID/Remote_Verification_API">Verification API reference</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Reference for the remote verification API hosted at <code>https://verifier.login.persona.org/verify</code>.</dd>
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        <h3 id="Guides">Guides</h3>
        <dl>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/Persona/Security_Considerations" title="BrowserID/Security considerations">Security considerations</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Practices and techniques to make sure your Persona deployment is secure.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/Persona/Browser_compatibility" title="/Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Learn exactly which browsers support Persona.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/Persona/Internationalization" title="/Internationalization">Internationalization</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Learn how Persona handles different languages.</dd>
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        <h3 id="Resources">Resources</h3>
        <dl>
          <dt>
            <a class="link-https" href="https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/wiki/Persona-Libraries" title="https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/wiki/BrowserID-Libraries">Libraries and plugins</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Find a drop-in library for your favorite programming language, web framework, blog, or content management system.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a class="link-https" href="https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-cookbook" title="https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-cookbook">The Persona cookbook</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Example source code for Persona sites. Includes snippets in PHP, Node.JS, and more.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en-US/docs/persona/branding" title="/en-US/docs/persona/branding">Branding resources</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Sign in buttons and other graphics to help present Persona to your users.</dd>
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<p> </p>
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        <h2 id="Information_for_Identity_Providers">Information for Identity Providers</h2>
        <p>If you're an email provider or another identity-providing service, check out the links below to learn about becoming a Persona Identity Provider.</p>
        <dl>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en-US/docs/Persona/Identity_Provider_Overview" title="IdP">IdP Overview</a></dt>
          <dd>
            A high level view of Persona Identity Providers.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/Persona/Implementing_a_Persona_IdP" title="Guide to Implementing a Persona IdP">Implementing an IdP</a></dt>
          <dd>
            A detailed guide to the technical details of becoming an IdP.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en-US/Persona/IdP_Development_tips" title="Developer tips">Development tips</a></dt>
          <dd>
            A set of tips and tricks useful while developing a new Identity Provider.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en-US/docs/Persona/.well-known-browserid" title="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/.well-known-browserid">.well-known/browserid</a></dt>
          <dd>
            An overview of the structure and purpose of the <code>.well-known/browserid</code> file, which IdPs use to advertise their support for the protocol.</dd>
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        <h2 id="The_Persona_Project">The Persona Project</h2>
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          <dt>
            <a href="/en/Persona/Glossary" title="navigator.id">Glossary</a></dt>
          <dd>
            BrowserID and Persona terminology defined.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/Persona/FAQ" title="en/BrowserID/FAQ">FAQ</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Answers to common questions.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/Persona/Protocol_Overview" title="BrowserID/Protocol overview">Protocol overview</a></dt>
          <dd>
            A mid-level technical overview of the underlying BrowserID protocol.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/en/persona/Crypto" title="MDN">Crypto</a></dt>
          <dd>
            A look at the cryptographic concepts behind Persona and BrowserID.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a class="link-https" href="https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/master/browserid/index.md" title="https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/master/browserid/index.md">The Spec</a></dt>
          <dd>
            Deep technical details live here.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="/Persona/Bootstrapping_Persona" title="en/BrowserID/Bootstrapping_BrowserID">The Persona Website</a></dt>
          <dd>
            To get Persona going, we're hosting three services at <a class="link-https" href="https://login.persona.org" rel="freelink">https://login.persona.org</a>: a fallback Identity Provider, a portable implementation of the {{ domxref("navigator.id") }} APIs, and an identity assertion verification service.</dd>
          <dt>
            <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/browserid">The Persona Source Code</a></dt>
          <dd>
            The code behind the Persona website lives in a repository on GitHub. Patches welcome!</dd>
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