ripsecrets
A command-line tool to prevent committing secret keys into your source code (by sirwart)
ggshield
Find and fix 360+ types of hardcoded secrets and 70+ types of infrastructure-as-code misconfigurations. (by GitGuardian)
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784 | 1,529 | |
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6.1 | 9.6 | |
15 days ago | 5 days ago | |
Rust | Python | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
ripsecrets
Posts with mentions or reviews of ripsecrets.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-07.
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Rust Easy! Modern Cross-platform Command Line Tools to Supercharge Your Terminal
ripsecrets: Find secret keys in your code before committing them to git.
- A command-line tool to prevent committing secret keys into your source code
- Show HN: No Secrets Quickly find sensitive files in your GitHub repo
- sirwart/secrets: A command-line tool to prevent committing secret keys into your source code
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Secrets: A command-line tool to prevent committing secret keys into your source
interesting that the author defines a list of pre-defined secrets to scan for
https://github.com/sirwart/secrets/blob/main/src/find_secret...
Why no check for AWS keys?
ggshield
Posts with mentions or reviews of ggshield.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.
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Tools for checking your code?
For secrets scanning you can implement ggshield precommit hook. : https://github.com/GitGuardian/ggshield
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What do i tell him?
I believe you'll get all the information you need on their website
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Infrastructure as Code Security [Security Zines]
The GitGuardian's CLI, ggshield, was recently updated to support IaC misconfigurations scanning: it's as easy as ggshield iac scan path_to_iac_main_folder.
- GitHub Access Token Exposure
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How To Use ggshield To Avoid Hardcoded Secrets [cheat sheet included]
If you want to build a configuration from an example, you can find a sample config file at https://github.com/GitGuardian/ggshield/blob/main/.gitguardian.example.yml.
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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.
- Toyota Accidently Exposed a Secret Key Publicly on GitHub for Five Years
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Thinking Like a Hacker: Abusing Stolen Private Keys
First up is the leaked TLS private key. Poor Corp added their wildcard certificate to their GitLab image, but they didn’t consider that anyone could steal the private key from the Docker image once published on Docker Hub. Rather than adding sensitive files and hardcoded environment variables to their containers while they were being built, Poor Corp should have used runtime environment variables and mounted volumes to pass secrets into the container—by the way, ggshield, the secrets detection CLI from GitGuardian, has a command for scanning Docker images. If you find that you’ve also made this mistake, you need to immediately revoke any certificates or credentials that were exposed.
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How to make security policies a team effort
GitGuardian’s CLI, ggshield, can be installed as a pre-commit hook on a developer’s workstation to act like a security seatbelt preventing any secret from being committed locally in the first place. If a developer chooses to bypass the guardrail and push a secret anyway, the event is reported in the GitGuardian dashboard. This allows security teams to have eyes on any possible policy issues as developers build—all without holding up their progress. These tools can detect risks, watch for vulnerabilities, and notify the right people in a non-intrusive way.
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Life is Too Short to Review Spaces
ggshield is one of the tools we develop at GitGuardian to help secure the codebase. Integrated as a hook it will scan the content of the git patch to make sure it does not contains any secret like an API token.