trufflesecurity/trufflehog
Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
About the project
TruffleHog is a Go tool for finding leaked credentials: it scans Git, chats, wikis, logs and filesystems, classifies secrets across 800+ types, and verifies whether they are still live. It is aimed at security teams and developers auditing repos and infrastructure.
Useful for
- Scan a GitHub repo for live secrets before making code public
- Scan an entire GitHub org while excluding archived repositories
- Run checks in CI to block commits containing leaked keys
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 19 stars today.
- Over the last two days the pace is 2× that of the previous week and a half.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #18, +32 stars.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 27,866
- Stars in a day
- 19
- Forks
- 2,579
- Issues and pull requests
- 5,242
- Watchers
- 212
- Language
- Go
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Latest release
- v3.97.4 · September 3, 2026
- Created
- December 31, 2016
- Last push
- September 12, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 13, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #3, +32 stars
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