OpenLink YouID Browser Extension

YouID is a simple — but powerful — system for generating, managing, and controlling Web- and Internet-scale verifiable identity that's totally controlled by you. It makes you the master curator of your profile data and associated content indexes, without compromising your privacy.

Intro

The YouID browser extension (currently for for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera) enables you to register and switch Web Identities (NetIDs) across a single HTTPS (TLS) session without restarting your browser. Each NetID is a hyperlink that names (i.e., denotes and connotes) a user by resolving to said user's profile document comprising verifiable credentials (readable by humans and computable by machines) that are authenticated cryptographically using existing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) standards.

Support for additional browsers like Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge is under investigation.

License

Copyright © 2013-2022 OpenLink Software

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License (see COPYING).

Note: that the only valid version of the GPL license as far as this project is concerned is the original GNU General Public License Version 2, dated June 1991.

Deployment

To deploy this extension on your local machine you can either clone the git source tree or download a source archive and then install the extension into your browser on the same system.

Clone the git source tree

Clone the sources from github using the following commands, which will automatically download the latest develop branch.

$ cd src
$ git clone https://github.com/OpenLinkSoftware/youid

Download a source archive

Download and extract a .tar.gz or .zip from one of the stable releases or directly from one of the following links:

• latest stable .tar.gz
• latest stable .zip
• latest development .tar.gz
• latest development .zip

Install the extension in Chrome

To install this extension manually use the following steps:

1. Open the Chrome browser
2. Select from menu: Chrome → Preferences → Extensions
3. Tick the checkbox for Developer mode
4. Choose the option Load unpacked extension...
5. Navigate to the folder containing the extracted source code
6. Press the Select button

Install the extension in Opera

To install this extension manually use the following steps:

1. Open the Opera browser
2. In address bar type in opera:extensions
3. Press the Developer Mode button
4. Choose the option Load unpacked extension...
5. Navigate to the folder containing the extracted source
6. Press the Select button

Install the extension in Firefox

Download the Firefox YouID .zip file and extract the .xpi file.

To install this extension manually in Firefox v28+, use the following steps:

1. Open the Firefox browser
2. In address bar type: about:config
3. Press the I'll be careful, i promise button
4. Search for xpinstall.signatures.required
5. Double click that line so the value is set to false
6. In address bar type: about:addons
7. Click on the Gear icon and select Install Add-On from file... from the menu
8. Navigate to the directory where you extracted the YouID_FF.xpi file, select this file, and press the Open button
9. Press the Install button