tartufo
Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history (by godaddy)
detect-secrets
An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code. (by Yelp)
| tartufo | detect-secrets | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 20 | |
| 389 | 3,469 | |
| 2.1% | 1.3% | |
| 6.1 | 8.1 | |
| 21 days ago | 23 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
tartufo
Posts with mentions or reviews of tartufo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-20.
- Show HN: Tartufo, the godaddy Git secrets linter
- GitHub Access Token Exposure
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Toyota Accidently Exposed a Secret Key Publicly on GitHub for Five Years
You could set up something like https://github.com/godaddy/tartufo in a pre-commit hook. Not sure if github has a way to hook into the push hooks on server side, they might though.
- Tartufo – effective finds secrets accidentally committed
detect-secrets
Posts with mentions or reviews of detect-secrets.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.
- Rotz: Cross platform dotfile manager written in Rust
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Detecting Secrets in Git Repositories
I searched a bit and found: https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets
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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.
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"um": GPT-powered CLI Assistant
Respecting your privacy: To protect your sensitive data, um uses the excellent detect-secrets python library to remove passwords and tokens before indexing commands. Also our OpenAI account is opted out of collecting and using data for training the next versions of GPT.
- DataSurgeon: Quickly Extracts IP's, Email Addresses, Hashes, Files, URLs, Phone numbers and more from text
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Protect yourself from accidentally leaking sensitive information
exclude: "^/migrations/" default_stages: [ commit, push ] default_language_version: python: python3 repos: - repo: https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets rev: v1.4.0 hooks: - id: detect-secrets name: Detect secrets language: python entry: detect-secrets-hook args: ['--baseline', '.secrets.baseline']
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My setup for publishing to Dev.to using github
repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v2.3.0 hooks: - id: check-yaml - id: end-of-file-fixer - id: trailing-whitespace - repo: https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets rev: v1.4.0 hooks: - id: detect-secrets - repo: https://github.com/igorshubovych/markdownlint-cli rev: v0.33.0 hooks: - id: markdownlint args: ["--disable=MD013"] # this removes line length warnings
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Toyota Accidently Exposed a Secret Key Publicly on GitHub for Five Years
Yelp has a "detect-secrets" project that can detect potential secrets and can be used as a pre-commit hook: https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets
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Implement DevSecOps to Secure your CI/CD pipeline
detect-secret is an enterprise-friendly tool for detecting and preventing secrets in the code base. We can also scan the non-git tracked files. There are other tools as well like Gitleaks which also provide similar functionality.
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Enable secure access to secrets for AWS ECS containers using Terraform - ecs-secrets-manager module
As presented in the report, a lot of secrets are hardcoded in the Git repository. This can be detected by secret detection tools. There are OSS like https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets or SaaS alternatives. The detection process can be executed by every team member locally using Git Hooks and on Github using Github Checks on the Pull Request level.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tartufo and detect-secrets you can also consider the following projects:
deadshot - Deadshot is a Github pull request scanner to identify sensitive data being committed to a repository
trufflehog - Find and verify secrets
secrets - A command-line tool to prevent committing secret keys into your source code [Moved to: https://github.com/sirwart/ripsecrets]
semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.
whispers - Identify hardcoded secrets in static structured text
snyk - Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities. [Moved to: https://github.com/snyk/cli]
kscp - Kubernetes Secrets Control Plane
gitleaks - Protect and discover secrets using Gitleaks 🔑
truffleHogRegexes - These are the regexes that power truffleHog
leaky-repo - Benchmarking repo for secrets scanning
ggshield - Find and fix 360+ types of hardcoded secrets and 70+ types of infrastructure-as-code misconfigurations.