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🌱Getting started

🔧Creating a scanner

📝Configuring a scanner

👟Running the scanner

📖Terminology

🐽Scan data for secrets

Azure Repos (cloud)

Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

Microsoft Sharepoint

Microsoft Teams

🔍Analyze secrets

Self-discovery analyzers

🔔Notify results

✔️Reverify secrets

Verification caching

✋Block secrets from leaking

🔧Customizing TruffleHog

🔒Security and Compliance

🐷TruffleHog Release Notes

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Block secrets from leaking

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What's better than cleaning up leaked secrets? Blocking them from leaking in the first place, of course!

TruffleHog offers two ways of preventing secrets from leaking in Git:

graph TD
A{Is the git server self-hosted?}
A -->|Yes| B[Prereceive hooks block secrets from being accepted at the git server]
A -->|No| C{Apply precommit hooks with TruffleHog}
C --> D[Prevent secrets from being pushed to the git server]
B --> E[End]
D --> E[End]
graph TD
A{Is the git server self-hosted?}
A -->|Yes| B[Prereceive hooks block secrets from being accepted at the git server]
A -->|No| C{Apply precommit hooks with TruffleHog}
C --> D[Prevent secrets from being pushed to the git server]
B --> E[End]
D --> E[End]
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﻿Pre-commit hooks﻿﻿
﻿Pre-receive hooks﻿﻿
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Updated 23 Apr 2024

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