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hibp-cli

Simple CLI that queries Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) servers.

This is a small shell program that I wrote that has some simple command line arguments that you can pass to it. Part of the reason for writing this is because I do not trust third party web servers that take passwords (even though I think it only actually processes the first five letters of the sha1 hash server side...).

It is also a pretty cool learning experience of using bash shell. Also if you play around enough with the different passwords that are pwned, you realize that a lot of them are very creative, but still doesn't work ;), for example thisisasecurepassword has been found 10 times as of this writing (so I guess it really isn't that secure after all :P ).

On the other hand, some 114+ people took xkcd's advice a little too literally. The password correcthorsebatterystaple was found 114 times.

Moral of the story? Creating an actually secure password is a little bit harder than it seems ;)

This is licensed under GPLv3+ license

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