git-all-secrets
A tool to capture all the git secrets by leveraging multiple open source git searching tools (by anshumanbh)
trufflehog
Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials (by trufflesecurity)

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git-all-secrets | trufflehog | |
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2 | 30 | |
1,116 | 18,366 | |
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10.0 | 9.9 | |
over 5 years ago | 5 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
git-all-secrets
Posts with mentions or reviews of git-all-secrets.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-10.
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Tools for github recon?
Also check out the tool truffleHog https://github.com/trufflesecurity/truffleHog and git-all-secrets https://github.com/anshumanbh/git-all-secrets
trufflehog
Posts with mentions or reviews of trufflehog.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-25.
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Scan secret using trufflehog
Trufflehog is a tool that can scan multiple sources (filesystem, git, have a pre commit hook, Postman), integrate in CI / Docker environment, etc... .
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Accident Forgiveness
https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog is a similar tool but checks for far more secrets, so I think it'd be a better choice.
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Using TruffleHog and pre-commit hook to prevent secret exposure
Here for Linux and Windows users
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Anyone Can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub
It's probably either that they took the picture a while ago, or they were going character by character and accidentally screenshot with one too few.
https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/commit/7bc0b2 https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/commit/7bc0b4 https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/commit/7bc0b8 https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/commit/7bc0b8
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Seeking help to identify vulnerabilities and secrets in a website backup file
Trufflehog
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1 in 10 developers leaked an API-key in 2022
Frankly, I think it will take years to replace API-keys (if it will ever happen). Developers are much better-off using CLI tools that prevent leaking secrets by blocking commits to git (e.g., https://github.com/Infisical/infisical or https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog)
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My boss keeps committing his creds into git
Trufflehog also offers pre-commit hooks. You can have it report on PRs too.
- Introducing DeepSecrets: a better appsec tool for secrets scanning
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Nosey Parker: a new scanner to find misplaced secrets in textual data and Git history
Is this not just a another https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog?
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Security scanning
I agree that code scanning is really important, the best way to convince others is to identify high-risk threats in source code and present them to the decision-makers. For example, scanning Secrets is great for showing how repositories can be a massive vulnerability and identifying some low-hanging fruit, especially in the git history. Attackers are really after git repository access for this reason and there are plenty of open-source or free tools that you can use to illustrate the problem. Git-Secrets, Truffle Hog. These aren't great for a long-term commercial solution, something like GitGuardian is a better commercial tool but if the goal is just to illustrate the problem then finding some high-value secrets with free tools is a good way to convince the security personnel to invest in some solutions. Then the door is open to having more conversations as you have already proven the risk.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing git-all-secrets and trufflehog you can also consider the following projects:
gitleaks - Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑
Sn1per - Attack Surface Management Platform
talisman - Using a pre-commit hook, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious — such as tokens, passwords, and private keys.
git-secrets - Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories
shhgit - Ah shhgit! Find secrets in your code. Secrets detection for your GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repositories.

Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library
Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
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