tartufo searches through git repositories for secrets, digging deep into
commit history and branches. This is effective at finding secrets accidentally
committed. tartufo also can be used by git pre-commit scripts to screen
changes for secrets before they are committed to the repository.
This tool will go through the entire commit history of each branch, and check each diff from each commit, and check for secrets. This is both by regex and by entropy. For entropy checks, tartufo will evaluate the shannon entropy for both the base64 char set and hexidecimal char set for every blob of text greater than 20 characters comprised of those character sets in each diff. If at any point a high entropy string > 20 characters is detected, it will print to the screen.
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Usage: tartufo [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Find secrets hidden in the depths of git.
Tartufo will, by default, scan the entire history of a git repository for
any text which looks like a secret, password, credential, etc. It can also
be made to work in pre-commit mode, for scanning blobs of text as a pre-
commit hook.
Options:
--rules FILENAME [DEPRECATED] Use the rule-patterns config
options instead. Path(s) to regex rules json
list file(s).
--default-regexes / --no-default-regexes
Whether to include the default regex list
when configuring search patterns. Only
applicable if --rules is also specified.
[default: default-regexes]
--entropy / --no-entropy Enable entropy checks. [default: entropy]
--regex / --no-regex Enable high signal regexes checks.
[default: regex]
--scan-filenames / --no-scan-filenames
Check the names of files being scanned as
well as their contents. [default: scan-
filenames]
-of, --output-format [json|compact|text]
Specify the format in which the output needs
to be generated `--output-format
json/compact/text`. Either `json`, `compact`
or `text` can be specified. If not provided
(default) the output will be generated in
`text` format.
-od, --output-dir DIRECTORY If specified, all issues will be written out
as individual JSON files to a uniquely named
directory under this one. This will help
with keeping the results of individual runs
of tartufo separated.
-td, --temp-dir DIRECTORY If specified, temporary files will be
written to the specified path
--buffer-size INTEGER Maximum number of issue to buffer in memory
before shifting to temporary file buffering
[default: 10000]
--git-rules-repo TEXT A file path, or git URL, pointing to a git
repository containing regex rules to be used
for scanning. By default, all .json files
will be loaded from the root of that
repository. --git-rules-files can be used to
override this behavior and load specific
files.
--git-rules-files TEXT Used in conjunction with --git-rules-repo,
specify glob-style patterns for files from
which to load the regex rules. Can be
specified multiple times.
--config FILE Read configuration from specified file.
[default: tartufo.toml]
-q, --quiet / --no-quiet Quiet mode. No outputs are reported if the
scan is successful and doesn't find any
issues
-v, --verbose Display more verbose output. Specifying this
option multiple times will incrementally
increase the amount of output.
--log-timestamps / --no-log-timestamps
Enable or disable timestamps in logging
messages. [default: log-timestamps]
--entropy-sensitivity INTEGER RANGE
Modify entropy detection sensitivity. This
is expressed as on a scale of 0 to 100,
where 0 means "totally nonrandom" and 100
means "totally random". Decreasing the
scanner's sensitivity increases the
likelihood that a given string will be
identified as suspicious. [default: 75;
0<=x<=100]
-b64, --b64-entropy-score TEXT [DEPRECATED] Use `--entropy-sensitivity`.
Modify the base64 entropy score. If a value
greater than the default (4.5 in a range of
0.0-6.0) is specified, tartufo lists higher
entropy base64 strings (longer or more
randomized strings. A lower value lists
lower entropy base64 strings (shorter or
less randomized strings).
-hex, --hex-entropy-score TEXT [DEPRECATED] Use `--entropy-sensitivity`.
Modify the hexadecimal entropy score. If a
value greater than the default (3.0 in a
range of 0.0-4.0) is specified, tartufo
lists higher entropy hexadecimal strings
(longer or more randomized strings). A lower
value lists lower entropy hexadecimal
strings (shorter or less randomized
strings).
-V, --version Show the version and exit.
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
pre-commit Scan staged changes in a pre-commit hook.
scan-remote-repo Automatically clone and scan a remote git repository.
scan-folder Scan a folder.
scan-local-repo Scan a repository already cloned to your local system.All contributors and contributions are welcome! Please see our contributing docs for more information.
This project was inspired by and built off of the work done by Dylan Ayrey on the truffleHog project.