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Mozilla Persona authenticates you using your email without the need to check your email every time (and without the need to enter your email password if you are already logged in).

Persona is awesome for that, and for the "no central authority" thing. To bad it lost momentum and seems an awesome relict inside of Mozilla.

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Unfortunately the non-native experience was never very good, and even the example implementers they pointed to were hit or miss for actually working cross browser.

I do kind of hope they use heartbleed to make a second push with it fast, while people are paying attention to the problems with current models.

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