Intent to Prototype: Email Verification Protocol

[Chromestatus]

Contact emails

go...@google.com

Explainer

https://github.com/dickhardt/email-verification-protocol

Specification

None

Summary

The EVP (email verification protocol) helps users create, access and recover accounts by providing cryptographic proof that they own an email address, rather than having to manually verify email addresses with magic links. https://github.com/dickhardt/email-verification-protocol

Blink component

Blink>Identity

Web Feature ID

Missing feature

Motivation

Verifying email addresses on the web today involves receiving magic link and proving that you have access to the email inbox. This is cumbersome for users and inefficient for developers: emails can take a while to arrive, can get into SPAM folders and users have to switch applications to verify them.

Initial public proposal

https://github.com/dickhardt/email-verification-protocol

TAG review

None

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

None

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

None

Debuggability

None

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

No

Flag name on about://flags

None

Finch feature name

None

Non-finch justification

None

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5205725253074944?gate=5165657771606016

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