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Bad passwords

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Tiny library containing a single function to check against the most common passwords.

Currently this list is fine-tuned for our purposes. It only contains passwords that are at least 10 characters long. We source our passwords from https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Passwords/Common-Credentials

Run the Tests

Install tox and run it:

pip install tox tox-uv
tox

Limit the tests to a specific python version:

tox -e py311

Conventions

Bad passwords follows PEP8 as close as possible. To test for it run:

tox -e lint

Bad passwords uses Semantic Versioning

Development

Setup your local development environment:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -e . --group dev
prek install

License

Bad passwords is released under MIT

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