Cool Password Check Tool

I wanted to check my passwords to see if they were compromised but really didn’t feel safe having a third party check them.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

Luckily they provide a large 10Gb file with hashed SHA1 passwords.

I can simply run

echo -n “foobar” | grep pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v4.txt

But it takes a long time, luckily someone came up with a trivial binary search

https://github.com/doug16rogers/find-pwned-password

I compiled it on one box and copied the database and binaries to a secure box.

This box has firewall, selinux and is non routable on the internet.

Much better, I am surprised at what passwords I used to use is out there.

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