I was an early adopter of OpenID and still lament the loss. I&#x27;m familiar enough with Persona and IdP&#x27;s that I could probably fork I&#x27;m flirting with the idea of offering LTS out-of-pocket as a public service if there is enough backing [e.g. demand by the geek community. Decentralized authentication is important and I feel strongly enough to engineer for free and&#x2F;or offer corporate support through my corporation for Persona and use it to subsidize additional development].<p>I also am working on offering both a FreeDNS service with DNSsec both as an authoritative server for all end-users (services like GoDaddy mark this, as well as SSL certificates, as a &quot;premium service&quot; and that is sheer insanity; I have made it my personal goal to ruin services like this and &quot;SSL watchers&quot; which charge 20$&#x2F;mo to ensure your cert doesn&#x27;t expire). Also don&#x27;t use OpenDNS, not only do they inject ads, but they break DNS by stripping DNSsec which is both unethical and a violation of the spec. I&#x27;ll have a blog post up on that later this week.<p>If you have a web-site, don&#x27;t have shell access but still want to put a cert up, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sslforfree.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sslforfree.com&#x2F;</a> use these guys. They&#x27;ll authenticate your ownership the same way Google Analytics does, then you associate the cert with your domain in the same way you would had you bought it from VeriSign.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.surveymonkey.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;VLFM7FD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.surveymonkey.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;VLFM7FD</a> - please fill this out if you have either interest in Persona or that DNS service I mentioned (the latter of which is likely to go up this week, the former depends on demand)