gitleaks
Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑 (by gitleaks)
trufflehog
Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials (by trufflesecurity)
| gitleaks | trufflehog | |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | 31 | |
| 19,544 | 18,733 | |
| 2.6% | 2.8% | |
| 9.4 | 9.8 | |
| 5 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
gitleaks
Posts with mentions or reviews of gitleaks.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-20.
- Gitleaks – open-source Secret Scannng
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Fitness Functions - O Check-up contÃnuo de seu Software
Exposição de dados sensÃveis. Gitleaks
- Gitleaks – Protect and Discover Secrets
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Gitleaks: Find forgotten codes in your repositories
github repository here
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Cloud Security and Resilience: DevSecOps Tools and Practices
1. Gitleaks: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks Gitleaks provides a way for developers to find and prevent security breaches by scanning Git repositories for secrets like passwords and API keys.
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How to use Lefthooks in your node project?
install gitleaks in your machine gitleaks
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I Analyzed StackOverflow for Secrets
> gitleaks : fatal error: runtime: out of memory
Should be fixed now: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/pull/1292. Thanks for highlighting this simple change I've been putting off :)
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[Help Needed] Securing Customized Gitleaks and Backend Communication?
I work in IT and we're enhancing our 'Shift Left Security' approach to prevent sensitive data leaks in our GitHub repositories. We've customized Gitleaks to send git-related information (like remote repository, author details, commit hash etc.) to our backend after each commit. This setup helps us monitor Gitleaks usage among our developers. (gitleaks)
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Go Security Scanner
Cool. What features/capabilities are different compared to gitleaks?
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My boss keeps committing his creds into git
To add my anecdote, testing out Trufflehog versus Gitleaks and detect-secrets the other tools seemed superior on detection rate and easier to work with.
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.
- TruffleHog: Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
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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?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gitleaks and trufflehog you can also consider the following projects:
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
talisman - Using a pre-commit hook, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious — such as tokens, passwords, and private keys.
semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.
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.