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Life & fun · April 24, 2019

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PwnedPasswords as a (Micro)Service

Recently I became interested in knowing whether the passwords I used were in the list of breached passwords. One way to find out is to send your password to the link here https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords. However, while the owner of that website is a well respected security researcher, I still don't think it's wise to send my password to another website. So I downloaded the 24gb file, hashed my password and grepped the file for it. That unfortunately took a long time and I realized this was the perfect opportunity to use a BloomFilter and test the inclusion of a password…

PwnedPasswords as a (Micro)Service launched on April 24, 2019 with 5 votes, #1,299 of 3,128 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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