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Does this mean that Google implemented a Persona endpoint for Gmail, or that Mozilla is now using OpenID (or whatever it is Google uses now) to piggyback on Google's existing login mechanisms?

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Croikle's right. This is using Google's public OpenID endpoint to validate your email address, and bootstrap a Persona certificate. We did this independently of Google, though we are in informal contact with the relevant folks on that side of the Valley.

Judging by [1], the latter.

1: http://identity.mozilla.com/post/56526022621/what-is-an-iden...

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