Password manager evaluation accepted at USENIX Security 2020


We would like to congratulate Sean Oesch for having his paper That Was Then, This Is Now: A Security Evaluation of Password Generation, Storage, and Autofill in Browser-Based Password Managers published at the 2020 USENIX Security Symposium. This evaluation looks at the security of thirteen popular password managers and covers the entire password manager lifecycle—password generation, storage, and autofill. This works identifies a range of issues in the studied password managers and provides recommendations for building better password managers.