# (git) Nosey Parker Nosey Parker is a command-line tool that finds secrets and sensitive information in textual data. It is useful both for offensive and defensive security testing. Key features: * List itemIt supports scanning files, directories, and the entire history of Git repositories * List itemIt uses regular expression matching with a set of 103 patterns chosen for high signal-to-noise based on experience and feedback from offensive security engagements * List itemIt groups matches together that share the same secret, further emphasizing signal over noise * List itemIt is fast: it can scan at hundreds of megabytes per second on a single core, and is able to scan 100GB of Linux kernel source history in less than 2 minutes on an older MacBook Pro This open-source version of Nosey Parker is a re-implementation of the internal version that is regularly used in offensive security engagements at Praetorian. The internal version has additional capabilities for false positive suppression and an alternative machine learning-based detection engine. Read more in blog posts here and here. Download {% embed url="" %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://baric6.gitbook.io/barics-knowledge-base/security-programs/bug-bounty/git-nosey-parker.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.