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  1. wget https://downloads.pwnedpasswords.com/passwords/pwned-passwords-1.0.txt.7z 5GB file, expands to ~10GB
  2. brew install unar (optional if you have a cli tool that can unarchive 7z files)
  3. unar pwned-passwords-1.0.txt.7z
  4. fgrep $(echo -n "password youre looking for" | openssl sha1 | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]') pwned-passwords-1.0.txt
    • $(echo -n "password youre looking for" | openssl sha1 | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]') gives you a SHA1, uppercased
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