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TruffleHog is a powerful tool that helps you find and verify leaked credentials in various places like Git repositories, chats, wikis, logs, and more. Here’s how it benefits you TruffleHog can search for secrets in many different sources such as Git, chats, wikis, logs, and file systems.
- **Classification** For each found secret, TruffleHog checks if it is live and active.
- **Analysis**: It provides detailed information about the secret, such as who created it and what resources it can access.

Using TruffleHog helps you protect your credentials by detecting and verifying them before they cause any harm. You can install it via various methods like Docker, binary releases, or compiling from source, making it easy to integrate into your security workflow.

https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog