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19 lines
798 B
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Pwned Passwords are hundreds of millions of real world passwords exposed in
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data breaches. This exposure makes them unsuitable for ongoing use as they
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are at much greater risk of being used to take over other accounts.
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This script offers 2 methods to check whether a password has been exposed
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in an uncovered breach:
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1) Online check implemented in such a way that the password to be checked
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does not need to be sent to the remote database server.
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2) Local check against a copy of the pawned passwords database.
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Since the local copy of the database requires nearly 20 GB of disk space
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(and a download of more than 10 GB of compressed data) the access via the
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online check should be preferred, if the compatible with operational and
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security requirements.
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WWW: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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