[HN Gopher] TruffleHog v3 - Detect and automatically verify over...
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       TruffleHog v3 - Detect and automatically verify over 600 credential
       types
        
       Author : riverdroid
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2022-04-04 19:21 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | lol768 wrote:
       | Note that v3 shifts to AGPL, from GPL in prior versions.
       | 
       | Doesn't bother me personally, but I know a lot of companies won't
       | touch AGPL'd projects with a bargepole so this probably worth
       | bearing in mind.
        
         | mdaniel wrote:
         | then they must have rewritten the 2.0.97 tag from 2016 because
         | it's AGPL also:
         | https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/blob/2.0.97/LI...
        
           | cmeacham98 wrote:
           | Github's identification is incorrect, the text is clearly the
           | GPL and not AGPL. My guess is that github does its LICENSE-
           | autodetect thing only on the default branch but displays it
           | everywhere (this probably should be considered a bug?).
        
             | mdaniel wrote:
             | Gosh, I'm so sorry for spreading false information. Had
             | that license widget not taken up so much screen real estate
             | one might have had a fighting chance at spotting the error
             | :-(
             | 
             | I dread tracking down which issue in the GitHub org that
             | belongs to
        
       | atonse wrote:
       | Is there a tool like this with a more permissive license?
        
         | psanford wrote:
         | There are a lot of secret detection tools out there. It
         | probably is going to depend a lot on the specific features you
         | care about. I personally really like shhgit[0] which is MIT
         | licensed and is the tool I've found to most match my workflows.
         | 
         | [0]: https://github.com/eth0izzle/shhgit
        
         | beckler wrote:
         | Gitleaks
        
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