A simple tool to process the password hash files provided by haveibeenpwned.com. I've written this tool to learn more about rust and to fulfill by own needs. Maybe it's also useful for someone else. Feel free to play around with it or submit PRs.
This is one of the simples things to do. If you have Rust installed, just type
cargo build --releasein a terminal window. After a short period of time the tool is build and can be used. Please be sure that you've
provided the --release flag since otherwise the optimization process can take up to 10-times as long.
If you are running the tool on Linux, I recommend placing the binary in your path. An option - even though it's not the recommended way - would be typing
sudo cp target/release/pwned-rs /usr/binAs said above, the program just helps you searching offline in the password databases provided by haveibeenpwned.com. Before you start, please visit https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords and download the database in the SHA-1 format ordered by hash. This is quite important since the program is currently not designed to read the other files correctly.
Afer downloading and extracting the password database, you can simply run
pwned-rs quick-lookup /path/to/the/password/hash/file.txtto search for password hashes inside the database.
The tool does have different modes in which it can run. First, you have to start to "optimize" the password hash file. This will group the password hashes by a prefix in separate files in which it can lookup hashes quite quick. This "optimization" process is started by typing
pwned-rs optimize /path/to/the/password/hash/file.txt /output/folderIt will run about 20 minutes on a recently quick CPU and HDD/SSD combination. This process has to be done just a single time and the single-file password hash file can be deleted afterwards.
After this optimization process, the search for a password in this database is quickly done by typing
pwned-rs lookup /path/to/optimized/databaseand follow the instructions given by the program itsemf.