Security of Password Managers

At USENIX Security this year, there were two papers studying the security of password managers: David Silver, Suman Jana, and Dan Boneh, "Password Managers: Attacks and Defenses." Zhiwei Li, Warren He, Devdatta Akhawe, and Dawn Song, "The Emperor's New Password Manager: Security Analysis of Web-based Password Managers." It's interesting work, especially because it looks at security problems in something that...