Mitro was a
password manager
A password manager is a software program to prevent password fatigue by Random password generator, automatically generating, Autofill, autofilling and storing Password, passwords. It can do this for Application software, local applications or web ...
for individuals and teams that securely saved users' logins, and allowed users to log in and share access.
On October 6, 2015, the Mitro service shut down.
The successor to Mitro is named Passopolis; this is a password manager built upon the Mitro
source code
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History
Mitro was founded in 2012 by
Vijay Pandurangan, Evan Jones, and Adam Hilss. Mitro was backed by $1.2 million in seed funding from
Google Ventures and
Matrix Partners
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.
On July 31, 2014, the Mitro team announced that they would join
Twitter
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, and at the same time, they released the source code for Mitro on
GitHub
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as
free software
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under
GPL
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The Mitro team announced the shuttering of the Mitro service with the following timeline:
* July 11, 2015: Initial announcement that Mitro would be shut down
* July 18, 2015: Creating new accounts was disabled
* August 4, 2015: Final email warning about imminent shutdown was sent
* September 24, 2015: Mitro become read-only
* October 6, 2015: Mitro service was turned off
* October 31, 2015: All Mitro user data permanently destroyed
The Mitro team explained the reason for shutting down the service was that the cost and administrative burden to maintain the service in their spare time with their own money had become too much. Given that they could not properly manage a service that people rely on for their security, they needed to stop running it.
Former customers were encouraged to move to Passopolis, and independent project that uses the open source Mitro code, or use alternatives such as
1Password
1Password is a password manager developed by the Canadian software company AgileBits Inc. It supports multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS. It provides a place for users to store various passwords, software licenses ...
,
Dashlane
Dashlane is a subscription-based password manager and digital wallet application available on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. Dashlane uses a freemium pricing model with a subscription plan option.
Overview
Dashlane was founded in Paris o ...
, or
LastPass
LastPass is a password manager application. The standard version of LastPass comes with a Web interface, but also includes plugins for various Web browsers and apps for many smartphones. It also includes support for bookmarklets.
Founded in ...
.
On October 5, 2015, Mitro was officially terminated by Twitter.
Security
Mitro uses Google's Keyczar on the server and Keyczar JS implementation on the browser.
* Master key is a 128-bit AES key derived using PBKDF2 (SHA-1; 50000 iterations; 16 salt bytes)
* RSA with 2048-bit keys using OAEP-SHA1 (separate signing and encryption keys)
* AES with 128-bit keys in CBC mode with PKCS5 padding
* All encrypted data includes a MAC (HMAC-SHA1)
See also
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List of password managers
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Summary information
Features
See also
* Password manager
* Password fatigue
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Password manager
A password manager is a software program to prevent password fatigue by Random password generator, automatically generating, Autofill, autofilling and storing Password, passwords. It can do this for Application software, local applications or web ...
*
Cryptography
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