pwnedpass 0.0.1

Queries a local instance of Troy Hunt's Pwned Passwords database. (Port of https://github.com/tylerchr/pwnedpass)

pwnedpasswords tool

This code enables efficient querying of the Pwned Passwords database, without connecting to an external web service. This is primarily a python port of pwnedpass. This version uses the full 32 bit integer for each pwned count, and the searching code is written in python instead of Go since I need to use it in a Flask web application.

Binary file conversion tool

If you'd rather not go to the hassle of running this, you can download a copy of the .bin file off my site.

First download the latest Pwned Passwords SHA-1 file from here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords. Pick the one that's ordered by hash.

$ make
go build rewrite.go
# command-line-arguments
loadinternal: cannot find runtime/cgo
$ 7z e -so pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v5.7z pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v5.txt | ./rewrite pwned-passwords-v5.bin
Reserving space for the index segment...
Writing data segment...
Writing index segment...
OK

The SHA-256 hash of the outputted file should be e49b811e38a3e64d0c79aac3d6a46e0eaa0011f47603b91e131fa6aac61ea43a.

Testing the binary file

Assuming you did use v5 of the pwned passwords file, you can test the output file was generated correctly by running ./test.py <path to the binary file>.

Python search tool

Included is a python module, pwnedpass.py that can be used as a CLI script or a library. You can install both using pip:

pip install pwnedpass

CLI

$ pwnedpass pwned-passwords-v5.bin 9e7c97801cb4cce87b6c02f98291a6420e6400ad
6753
$ echo $?
2
$ pwnedpass pwned-passwords-v5.bin 4e0ff63499ff9931ec2980c6a71d63cab4f94f99
$ echo $?
0
$ pwnedpass pwned-passwords-v5.bin
Password: 
6753

Where pwned-passwords-v5.bin is the output of the rewrite tool.

• For compromised password hashes, output the number of times the password was compromised, and return an unsuccessful error code != 1.
• For non-compromised password hashes, output nothing successfully.

As a library

import hashlib
import pwnedpass

user_password = read_password_from_web_form()

with open('pwned-passwords-v5.bin', 'rb') as f:
	if count := pwnedpass.search(f, hashlib.sha1(user_password.encode()).digest()):
		return f'Please use a different password. This one has been compromised {count} times.'
	else:
		# DO NOT USE the sha1 digest in your user database. SHA1 should *only* be used for checking if it's compromised.
		hash = salt_and_hash_password(user_password)
		save_to_database(hash)

License

• pwnedpass.py and test.py are under the BlueOak Model License v1.0.0. See LICENSE.md for details.
• rewrite.go is used under the BSD 3-clause license. See that file for details.