Secrets Detection In Source Code

Secrets Detection in Source Code is a security analysis method that identifies embedded sensitive information, such as credentials or cryptographic keys, within source code by distinguishing them from non-sensitive data through syntactic, lexical, or pattern-based heuristics.

Publications

244

Citations

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Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Code Review For Security

Publications

How Bad Can It Git? Characterizing Secret Leakage in Public GitHub Repositories

Michael Meli, Matthew R. McNiece, Bradley Reaves · 2019 · 93 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +17

Detecting and Mitigating Secret-Key Leaks in Source Code Repositories

Vibha Singhal Sinha, Diptikalyan Saha, Pankaj Dhoolia et al. · 2015 · 40 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +15

Automated detection of password leakage from public GitHub repositories

Runhan Feng, Ziyang Yan, Shiyan Peng et al. · Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering · 2022 · 37 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +14

How to reveal the secrets of an obscure white-box implementation

Louis Goubin, Pascal Paillier, Matthieu Rivain et al. · Journal of Cryptographic Engineering · 2019 · 37 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +7

Secrets in Source Code: Reducing False Positives using Machine Learning

Aakanksha Saha, Tamara Denning, Vivek Srikumar et al. · 2020 · 37 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +15

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Authors

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Bradley Reaves
North Carolina State University, United States
1 publications · 93 citations
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Louis Goubin
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
1 publications · 37 citations
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JW
Junwei Wang
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
1 publications · 37 citations
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Rohan Padhye
University of California, Berkeley, United States
1 publications · 40 citations
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Pascal Paillier
CryptoExperts (France), France
1 publications · 37 citations
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Institutions

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Venues

Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
1 publications · 37 citations
1
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Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
Conference · 1 publications · 37 citations
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Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Conference · 1 publications · 12 citations
Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.
1 publications · 23 citations

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