Orion v0.1.0

https://diode.zone/videos/watch/ffd4021d-2b39-4e6a-993e-3eacf9323320

Initially it presented a simple prompt that accepted a password & it checked that password against HIBP database. Orion v0.2.0+ checks for compromised passwords in my password store. It builds a list of all the passwords in ~/.password-store & performs these operations on each file:

• Password is hashed & split (prefix: [:5], suffix: [5:])
• Prefix is sent to the HIBP API
• HIBP API returns list of suffixes along with frequency
• Orion looks for suffix from the list of suffixes

Match means the password is present in HIBP database & has been compromised.

• Note: Password not present in database doesn’t mean that it is a strong password.

If enabled, it prints a “.” for every password entry it checks.

Orion v0.1.0 was a simple cli application that asked user for password & returned the results. I never used this because I don’t generate password in head, pass is my password manager & it stores all my passwords.

Orion was ported from Go to Raku.