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Mitro

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License
  
GNU GPLv3

Founded
  
15 May 2012

Website
  
www.mitro.co

Type of business
  
Password manager

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Headquarters
  
New York City, New York, United States

Founders
  
Evan Jones, Adam Hilss, Vijay Pandurangan

Profiles

Twitter

Mitro was a password manager for individuals and teams that securely saves users' logins, and allows users to log in and share access.

Contents

Mitro Labs announced that the Mitro service shut down on October 6, 2015.

History

Mitro was founded in 2012 by Vijay Pandurangan, Evan Jones, and Adam Hilss.

On July 31, 2014 the Mitro team announced that they will join Twitter, and at the same time, they release the source code for Mitro on GitHub as free software under GPL.

The Mitro team announced the shuttering of the Mitro service with the following timeline:

  • July 11, 2015: Initial announcement that Mitro will be shutdown
  • 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, Dashlane, or LastPass.

    On October 5, 2015 Mitro was officially terminated by Twitter.

    Seed Funding

    Mitro was backed by $1.2 million in seed funding from Google Ventures and Matrix Partners.

    Features

  • Password generator
  • Password sharing
  • One-click login
  • Two factor authentication
  • Cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility
  • Browser extensions: Chrome, Firefox, Safari
  • Mobile solutions for Android and iOS

    • 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)

    • References

    Mitro Wikipedia
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