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Gitleaks vs truffleHog

A side-by-side look at Gitleaks and truffleHog. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Gitleaks

Gitleaks

Security & Privacy

Gitleaks is an open-source tool for detecting hardcoded secrets like passwords, API keys, and tokens in git repositories. It scans commit history and branch comparisons to find leaked keys that were committed accidentally.

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truffleHog

truffleHog

Security & Privacy

TruffleHog is an open source tool for finding secrets and passwords that have been committed to git repositories. It scans git histories for high entropy strings and secrets, letting developers and security teams find and revoke credentials that have been accidentally committed.

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