# mozilla/persona

Persona is a secure, distributed, and easy to use identification system.

Repository: https://github.com/mozilla/persona
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/persona
Homepage: https://login.persona.org
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-02-22T02:52:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5628, "days_push": 2749, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1839, forks 262 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:42.878255+00:00)

## What it is
Mozilla Persona is a secure, distributed identification system based on the BrowserID protocol, providing login services including a fallback identity provider and a cryptographic verification service. It was Mozilla's decentralized web authentication system, written primarily in Node.js.

## Use cases
- add passwordless login to a website
- verify user identity assertions cryptographically
- implement BrowserID protocol authentication
- self-host a fallback identity provider
- replace password-based sign-in with email-based identity

## When to choose
- studying the BrowserID protocol or historical decentralized identity designs
- maintaining a legacy site that still integrates Persona

## When to avoid
- starting any new project - the service was shut down by Mozilla and is no longer operational
- needing a supported production authentication system
- expecting active maintenance or security updates

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: auth, http-server, cryptography, security
- domain: security, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: browserid, identity, single-sign-on, deprecated, mozilla, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- mozilla/persona (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:42.878255+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:18:14.993939+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mozilla/persona (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:42.878255+00:00, sha b91ab232fe21)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.