The existing WWW infrastructure already provides for authentication of web sites. Unfortunately, the advent of phishing has shown that the mainstream user interface to web site authentication is not meaningful to users. This paper proposes a new browser user interface widget, the petname tool, that integrates meaningful authentication information into the browsing workflow.
Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming
Names must be human-readable in order to be widely used. Unfortunately, while DIDs and Tor .onion addresses are decentralized and globally unique, they are not human readable. How can we build user interfaces that real users might actually use? In this paper we provide an overview of petname systems, a way of mapping human readable names to cryptographically secure names, and describe changes to two user interface designs that we believe that are compatible with intuitive user expectations. We first discuss the smartphone contact list as already approximating petnames to some degree and discuss how to augment it with secure introduction. We then walk through several changes to browsers (which may be provided natively or as an extension) which add the functionality of a petname system. By utilizing petname systems we are able to collectively support individual naming definitions, community curated directories of names, as well as existing naming authorities such as certificate authorities and the domain name system, government agencies such as trademark offices, and decentralized systems such as Namecoin.
Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming
Names must be human-readable in order to be widely used. Unfortunately, while DIDs and Tor .onion addresses are decentralized and globally unique, they are not human readable. How can we build user interfaces that real users might actually use? In this paper we provide an overview of petname systems, a way of mapping human readable names to cryptographically secure names, and describe changes to two user interface designs that we believe that are compatible with intuitive user expectations. We first discuss the smartphone contact list as already approximating petnames to some degree and discuss how to augment it with secure introduction. We then walk through several changes to browsers (which may be provided natively or as an extension) which add the functionality of a petname system. By utilizing petname systems we are able to collectively support individual naming definitions, community curated directories of names, as well as existing naming authorities such as certificate authorities and the domain name system, government agencies such as trademark offices, and decentralized systems such as Namecoin.
Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents | Hacker News
Check out this video to see it in action: https://preview.screen.studio/share/r1h4DuAk. There are lots more demos at https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use on how we control the web with prompts.
Antidetect Browser for Managing Multiple Accounts Safely | Gologin
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filaebot/petnames
Browser extension for personal naming on Bluesky. Your namespace, your mental model.
Pilcrow's auth book
Pilcrow's collection of guides, recommendations, and examples for implementing auth in web applications.
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Check if your browser has a unique fingerprint, how identifiable you are on the Internet
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Browserbase is the complete platform to build and deploy agents that browse and interact with the web like humans.
Browser Fingerprinting: An Introduction and the Challenges Ahead | Tor Project
In the past few years, a technique called browser fingerprinting has received a lot of attention because of the risks it can pose to privacy. What is it? How is it used? What is Tor Browser doing against it? In this blog post, I’m here to answer these questions.
Marque · Your name, on the open web
Domains for your next idea. Built on the AT Protocol, made for the open web.
index.html · by atprotofans.com
An browser-side ATProtocol OAuth application with no dependencies that verifies supporters
Digital Credentials · Issue #1003 · mozilla/standards-positions
Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification Specification title: Digital Credentials Specification or proposal URL (if available): https://wicg.github.io/digital-identities/ Expla...
🦫 alert! We published the second episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks", featuring native support for @atproto.com ! Learn more how we improve user agency and privacy at webbeef.org/atproto.html : - Native at:// protocol support. - Log in your PDS and forget OAuth ! - Authorize 3rd parties
