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Strong Passwords with HaveIBeenPwned Discussion

The timing of this video is perfect! I was wanting to add something like this to my app.. but was stuck on what approach to take!

Again another usefull and well explained video! Keep it coming Chris!

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Like this video - I also found it as usefull and well explained ! congratulation Chris!

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Dear Chris,

Why would one send their users passwords over an relatively insecure HTTPS connection to a third party API? I like increased security but this makes no sense. We don't know who controls the API and if they log the sent passwords.

Am I missing something? Even if its hashed, it doesn't worth the risk.
If the password library was downloaded it would be good. Otherwise not.

Have you thought about that Chris?

Cheers

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The HaveIBeenPwned API is run by Troy Hunt, he's pretty famous in the InfoSec community. I don't think they log the passwords, but I don't know that definitively. That being said, a preamble that explains that would be helpful in this video.

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