mazen160/secrets-patterns-db resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Secrets Patterns DB is the largest open-source database of over 1600 tested regular expressions for detecting secrets, API keys, passwords, and tokens. It provides conversion scripts to feed secret scanning engines like TruffleHog and Gitleaks with curated, ReDoS-validated patterns categorized by confidence level.

Use cases

• find leaked api keys in git repositories
• feed custom regex rules into gitleaks
• convert secret patterns for trufflehog v3
• improve secret detection coverage in an appsec program
• detect hardcoded passwords and tokens in source code
• source regex rules for a custom secret scanning engine

When to choose

• you need broader secret detection coverage than built-in TruffleHog or Gitleaks rules provide
• you want curated, ReDoS-tested regex patterns categorized by confidence
• you maintain a secret scanning pipeline and want a community-maintained rule database

When to avoid

• you need entropy-based secret detection rather than regex pattern matching
• you need a full secret scanning tool rather than a pattern dataset
• you require severity-level classification, which is not yet supported

Facets

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security vulnerability-scanning parser security developer-tools privacy cross-platform python cli secrets-detection regex-patterns gitleaks trufflehog api-keys secret-scanning appsec

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