I am seeing multiple discussions confusing the 'have I been pwned' and 'pwned passwords' services. This is a release of pwned passwords. I wrote a small comma

I am seeing multiple discussions confusing the 'have I been pwned' and 'pwned passwords' services. This is a release of pwned passwords. I wrote a small commandline tool where I generate my own passwords and I validate them against the pwnd passwords database. The code can be seen here https://github.com/vivekhub/password-generator/blob/9a3ca8aafaa39d3007293aff2b7f49ad2fc843d2/passgen#L73 https://github.com/vivekhub/password-generator/blob/9a3ca8aa.... The two lines of python code summarizes the approach. Create an SHA1 and send the first five characters.