# Hugging Face partners with TruffleHog to Scan for Secrets

DevFeed: [Hugging Face partners with TruffleHog to Scan for Secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hugging-face-partners-with-trufflehog-to-scan-for-secrets-7543.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/trufflesecurity-partnership>)

Author: Luc Georges

Published: 2024-09-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [Secret Scanning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/secret-scanning.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [API keys](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api-keys.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/passwords.md>)

Tags: [api-keys](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-keys.md>), [hub](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hub.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [partnerships](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partnerships.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/passwords.md>), [secret-scanning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secret-scanning.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tokens.md>)

## AI overview

Hugging Face describes its partnership with TruffleHog to improve secret scanning. TruffleHog scans files and repositories for leaked credentials, tokens, API keys, and encryption keys, and verifies whether detected secrets work. Hugging Face added TruffleHog to its automated repository-scanning pipeline and is developing a native Hugging Face scanner in TruffleHog so users can scan their account data for leaked secrets.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.