A simple CLI tool that takes a list of passwords as shown below, queries the haveibeenpwned API and lets you know if they have been compromised in a data breach.
Use a password that has yet to be leaked in a breach.
You provide one or more passwords which are hashed using SHA-1 (it's ok as the password isn't stored anywhere).
Then using a system called k-anonymity
, only the first five characters of your hashed password are used to query the
pwned
API which subsequently returns a set of hashed passwords that might match a given password.
The actually checking to see if a given password has been breached happens locally so your actual passwords are never sent anywhere (read more).
npm install pwnd
You can also use npx
if you're using npm version npm@5.2.0
and above
npx pwnd password1 reallylongpasswordoverhere other etc.
pwnd password1 reallylongpasswordoverhere other etc.
or
Create a pwnd-config.json
file with a property called passwords
that's mapped to an array of passwords like so:
{
"passwords": ["password1", "reallylongpasswordoverhere", "other", "etc."]
}
Once you have created the pwnd-config.json
file, simply run pwnd
(with no arguments) in the same directory as the pwnd-config.json
file like so:
pwnd
MIT © Evans Owino