Tanmay Pardeshi

RiskHarvester: A Risk-based Tool to Prioritize Secret Removal Efforts in Software Artifacts

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Since 2020, GitGuardian has been detecting checked-in hard-coded secrets in GitHub repositories. During 2020-2023, GitGuardian has observed an upward annual trend and a four-fold increase in hard-coded secrets, with 12.8 million exposed in 2023. However, …