GitHub Access Token Exposure

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  1. talisman

    Using a pre-commit hook, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious — such as tokens, passwords, and private keys.

    https://thoughtworks.github.io/talisman/

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  3. tartufo

    Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history

  4. gitleaks

    Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑

  5. ggshield

    Detect and validate 400+ types of hardcoded secrets with advanced checks. Use it as a pre-commit hook, GitHub Action, or CLI for proactive secret detection and security.

  6. git-secrets

    Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories

  7. secrets

    Discontinued A command-line tool to prevent committing secret keys into your source code [Moved to: https://github.com/sirwart/ripsecrets] (by sirwart)

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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