RE: Utopian: The Project Liked By Steem Whales and Why You Should Join it Too
SteemConnect 2 will allow some specific apps to take only Posting keys. For example Steemit.chat will be able to allow login with Steem posting key using Steemconnect 2, the team is working on it. It's possible to do that because Steemit.chat doesn't need to post or upvote any content. (No delegation needed = No active key required)
But for any website like Steemit, Busy, Chainbb, and Utopian, it's not about sign-in, the active key is required to delegate your posting authority to the app account. You can revoke anytime this authority, using the steemconnect dashboard.
That's why, there is no key storage in SC2, everything happens in the browser in a secure way. It only requires your active key once in the browser, to delegate your posting authority to the app.
@ekitcho I see many doubts and many Steemians are simply not using external apps because they don't want to give out their credentials or they don't fully understand how it works. I think there must be a clear explanation about this. I'll probably write a dedicated post but my readers are limited. Something should also come from your side or Steem itself to make the process very clear for new comers and early adopters.
@jerrybanfield this is also material for you. A post about this would be extremely helpful
That's great. I see no reason not to upgarde to v2 when users can use the posting key to login.
As far as I understand the SSL, we can do the same thing through any https client, it need not be a browser only. The point to catch is that, you don't save it in SC2, so that should be all good.
I will have a look at the API in more details soon.