# gitleaks: Searches full repo history for secrets and keys 🔑

<https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks>

- Host: [github.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/github.com/)
- Saved: February 21, 2018 (2018-02-21T13:59:51Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2fdd3379f227/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2fdd3379f227.json

## What Jamie wrote

Very cool project to aid in identifying secrets that accidentally get added to source code repositories.

## Facts

- Kind: [Repository](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/repository/)
- Repository: gitleaks/gitleaks: Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑
- About the repository: Go, 30,276 stars, MIT, last push October 23, 2026
- Homepage: <https://gitleaks.io>

## Appears in

- [WT42: Weekly Thing #42 / Feb 24, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/42/), Security

## Same host

- [acme.sh: A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9d9b8eb5fb13/) (github.com, February 9, 2018)
- [cloudmapper: CloudMapper creates network diagrams of AWS environments](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ecc14bc6a6f9/) (github.com, February 22, 2018)
- [Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans™](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4915621c5d54/) (github.com, February 25, 2018)
- [programmers-oath: An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocratic Oath](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b3fc65f512a3/) (github.com, February 27, 2018)
- [Thank you for making 10 years of GitHub possible](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7804a44421cf/) (github.com, April 10, 2018)

## Saved the same week

- [Moving a large and old codebase to Python3 – Anders Hovmöller – Medium](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6bfc7d123ae9/) (medium.com, February 20, 2018)
- [Hyrum's Law](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1c5b4e105c6d/) (hyrumslaw.com, February 20, 2018)
- [Norris Numbers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6ecaa3b0c715/) (teamten.com, February 20, 2018)
- [5 Ways to Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a752a51bae74/) (hbr.org, February 21, 2018)
- [Alto’s Odyssey: A sequel to one of our favorite iOS games](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1f7ae95b3729/) (thesweetsetup.com, February 21, 2018)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks