This is a collection of command-line tools and utility classes which are useful for interacting with the pwnedkeys.com compromised key database. You can search the database to determine whether a key you have is compromised, or create a signed attestation of compromise for a key you have.

These tools are all written in Ruby, and require a fairly modern Ruby installation (version 2.5 or later). If you have such a setup, you can install the tools as a gem. Otherwise, if you have Docker, you can use the wrapper scripts to run the tools via a docker container.

Due to recent changes in the openssl standard library, the tools require Ruby 2.5 or later with the openssl extension. Assuming you've got that available, you can install the tools as a gem:

gem install pwnedkeys-tools

If you're the sturdy type that likes to run from git:

rake install

Or, if you've eschewed the convenience of Rubygems entirely, then you presumably know what to do already.

For those of you who don't have a bleeding edge Ruby installation laying around, but do have a Docker installation, you can copy the scripts in the docker-wrappers subdirectory into a directory in your PATH, and you'll be ready to go.

Whether you're running as a gem or via Docker, the command line tools have the same names and usage.

Run pwnedkeys-query, passing a public or private key, CSR, X.509 certificate, or SSH public key via stdin:

pwnedkeys-query < /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem

The exit status indicates whether the key is in the pwnedkeys database or not:

• 0 -- the key is not known to be compromised.

• 1 -- the key is known to be compromised, and should not be used.

• 2 -- some sort of error occurred, and the key's status is undetermined. An error message should have been printed on stderr.

If you have a key you'd like to submit to the pwnedkeys database, the best way to do it is to e-mail the key itself to submit@pwnedkeys.com. However, if for some reason you really, really don't want to do that, you can generate your own compromise attestation and e-mail that (along with the public key, so we can verify the attestation is legit) to submit@pwnedkeys.com.

To generate an attestation, run pwnedkeys-prove-pwned, passing in a private key on stdin:

pwnedkeys-prove-pwned < /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

A JSON blob, containing the attestation and signature, will be output on stdout.

Bug reports should be sent to the GitHub issue tracker. Patches can be sent as a GitHub pull request.

Unless otherwise stated, everything in this repo is covered by the following copyright notice:

Copyright (C) 2018  Matt Palmer <matt@hezmatt.org>

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