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Sentinel: A Go-based secret scanner that ditches regex for speed

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Sentinel is an open-source secret scanner built in Go that uses an Aho-Corasick automaton instead of regex to avoid catastrophic backtracking. It processes a 15MB payload in ~1.5 seconds with 100% signal-to-noise ratio. Features include pre-decoding of Base64 strings and blob aggregation for multi-line certificates.

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While Sentinel's benchmarks are impressive, real-world CI/CD pipelines may reveal edge cases not covered by synthetic tests.
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