PasswordCheckC

A quick and fun project I wrote while bored.

It is based off of the api here, which allows for safe checking of password security.

This program (as you can see), never sends your plain-text password, OR your password hash, anywhere. Here's how it works:

1. Your plain-text password is sent through the SHA-1 hashing algorithm. Please note that this is not a secure algorithm for, say, storing users' hashes in a database.
2. Only the first 20 hash bits (out of 160 total) are sent to the api, which returns a list of leaked hashes which begin with the same 20 bits.
3. PasswordCheckC compares your full hash (only stored in RAM locally while the process is running) with all those returned from the api.
4. PasswordCheckC then lets you know, via stderr output, whether or not your password hash was leaked in a public database breach (one the api has found), and how many times.

Some Notes

• I use sockets directly in my code (rather than libcurl), because my aim was to compile a fully statically-linked version of the program. This has not been successful yet, as statically linking libssl is difficult, though coding my own SSL encryption is more so. 😆