TruffleHog – discovery, classification, validation, and analysis tool

TruffleHog is a secret scanning engine that detects and helps resolve exposed secrets across your entire tech stack.

TruffleHog is a powerful secrets Discovery, Classification, Validation, and Analysis tool. In this context secret refers to a credential a machine uses to authenticate itself to another machine. This includes API keys, database passwords, private encryption keys, and more.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Discovery – look for secrets in many places including Git, chats, wikis, logs, API testing platforms, object stores, filesystems and more.
• Classification – classifies over 800 secret types, mapping them back to the specific identity they belong to.Validation – for every secret TruffleHog can classify, it can also log in to confirm if that secret is live or not. This step is critical to know if there’s an active present danger or not.
• Analysis – TruffleHog can send many requests to learn everything there is to know about the secret.

Website: github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog
Support:
Developer: Truffle Security Co.
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

TruffleHog is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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