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repo-security-scanner: finds secrets accidentally committed to a git repo, eg passwords, private keys

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repo-security-scanner

• CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a git repo, eg passwords, private keys
• Run it against your entire repo’s history by piping the output from git log -p

Installation

1. Download the latest stable release of the CLI tool for your architecture
2. Extract the tar and move the scanrepo binary to somewhere in your $PATH, eg /usr/bin

Usage

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Check the entire history of the current branch for secrets.

$ git log -p | scanrepo

------------------
Violation 1
Commit: 4cc087a1b4731d1017844cc86323df43068b0409
File: web/src/db/seed.sql
Reason: "SQL dump file"

------------------
Violation 2
Commit: 142e6019248c0d53a5240242ed1a75c0cc110a0b
File: config/passwords.ini
Reason: "Contains word: password"

...

Add false positives to .secignore

$ cat .secignore
file/that/is/not/really/a/secret/but/looks/like/one/to/diffence
these/pems/are/ok/*.pem

Local Testing

Set environment variables needed

Create env file and update environment variables.

$ cp .env{.example,}
# update .env values
$ vi .env
$ source .env

Launch containers

$ docker-compose up -d

Run test offenses

$ make test-run-offenses

Copyright (c) 2017 chrisns 

Source: https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/