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A tool to hunt for credentials in github wild AKA git*hunt
Detect and validate 500+ types of hardcoded secrets with advanced checks. Use it as a pre-commit hook, GitHub Action, or CLI for proactive secret detection and security.
Gitrob is a tool that scans public GitHub repositories for potentially sensitive files. It clones repositories and walks through their full commit history to flag files matching signatures for sensitive content, including files that may have been deleted in later commits. The tool presents its findings through a local web interface for interactive browsing and analysis. It serves results directly from memory without requiring a database, and allows users to save the full set of gathered findings to a JSON session file. Saved sessions can be loaded back into the web interface to continue analy
Git-secrets is a security utility designed to prevent the accidental exposure of sensitive credentials by integrating automated scanning directly into the version control commit lifecycle. It functions as a commit scanner that evaluates staged files and commit messages against defined security policies before changes are finalized in a repository. The tool utilizes regular expression pattern matching to identify potential secrets and supports the registration of custom patterns to address specific organizational security requirements. To manage operational friction, it includes mechanisms for
SEDATED® Project (Sensitive Enterprise Data Analyzer To Eliminate Disclosure)
The main features of owasp/sedated are: Secret Detection.
Open-source alternatives to owasp/sedated include: awslabs/git-secrets — Git-secrets is a security utility designed to prevent the accidental exposure of sensitive credentials by integrating… d1vious/git-wild-hunt — A tool to hunt for credentials in github wild AKA git*hunt. gitguardian/ggshield — Detect and validate 500+ types of hardcoded secrets with advanced checks. Use it as a pre-commit hook, GitHub Action,… michenriksen/gitrob — Gitrob is a tool that scans public GitHub repositories for potentially sensitive files. It clones repositories and… thoughtworks/talisman — Using a pre-commit hook, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious — such as tokens,… tillson/git-hound — Fast GitHub recon tool. Scans for leaked secrets across all of GitHub, not just known repos and orgs. Support for…