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by windsurfer 217 days ago
You can download the entire dataset using curl (will be 40+ GB)

    curl -s --retry 10 --retry-all-errors --remote-name-all --parallel --parallel-max 150 "https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}"
1 comments
ekjhgkejhgk 217 days ago
It's not that I couldn't have written that oneliner, it's that I assumed you'd get blocked very quickly.
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windsurfer 217 days ago
It is officially recommended by the Troy Hunt: https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned/PwnedPasswordsDownloader/i...
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ErroneousBosh 216 days ago
That speaks to a certain confidence in one's servers ability to hold up under load, doesn't it?

"Oh you want your own copy? Sure, just thrash seven shades of shit out of the database. Here's how."

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rjmunro 216 days ago
It's not a database, it's just files. And they are hosted by Cloudflare so they can cope with a lot of downloads.

I think he should make the files smaller my removing the second half of the hashes, i.e. reduce it from 40 hex digits to 20. This increases the change of a false positive (i.e. I enter my password, it says it was compromised but it wasn't, it just has the same hash as one that did) from 1 in 10^48 to 1 in 10^24 (per password), but that's still a huge number. (There's less than 10^10 people in the world, they only have a few passwords each). This will approximately halve the download, maybe more because the first half of each hash is more compressible (when sorted) the second half is totally random.

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ekjhgkejhgk 216 days ago
> It's not a database, it's just files. And they are hosted by Cloudflare so they can cope with a lot of downloads.

Database: a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer) [1]

It is a database. Stop nitpicking.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/database

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ekjhgkejhgk 216 days ago
Confidence in Cloudflare, for sure.
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ekjhgkejhgk 216 days ago
That's crazy, thank you.
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junon 216 days ago
You are being purposefully obtuse here. HIBP is a very, very well established site with a long history of operating in good faith.
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ekjhgkejhgk 216 days ago
> > It's not that I couldn't have written that oneliner, it's that I assumed you'd get blocked very quickly.

> junon https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=junon

> You are being purposefully obtuse here. HIBP is a very, very well established site with a long history of operating in good faith.

Allowing people to query and someone downloading the entire dataset is normally considered abuse, so being blocked is the expectation here. You're so dense you're bending light around you.

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