https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with-k-anonymity/ https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/ Not my original idea
https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/pwnedpassword/password A request for a single password reveals who is interested in this password. Maybe not that interesting for a widely-used value …
https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/pwnedpassword/p1nkyp13 But how many people would use their favorite my little pony character with vowels replaced with numbers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-anonymity k-Anonymity: 2 for any combination of Age + Gender + State found in any row of the table there are always at least 2 rows with those exact attributes Suppression Suppression Generalization
https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with-k-anonymity/ By using this property, we are able to seperate hashes into anonymized "buckets".
https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with-k-anonymity/ … and then download all hashes in the same anonymized "bucket" as that hash … {
https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with-k-anonymity/ { 5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8 5baa61f4c0b12f0a6691121c7de9420c8ff12c1f 5baa61aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 5baa61bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb 5baa61cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc 5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8 5baa61f4c0b12f0a6691121c7de9420c8ff12c1f 5baa61aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 5baa61bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb 5baa61cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc … then do an offline check to see if the user- supplied hash is in that breached bucket.