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Zach Rice

Head of Secrets Scanning
Zach Rice is Head of Secrets Scanning at Aikido Security. He is the author of Gitleaks and Betterleaks, two open source tools for detecting secrets in code, and continues to maintain them. Previously, Zach founded Gitleaks LLC and was a staff researcher at Truffle Security.
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Blog posts by Zach Rice

March 3, 2026
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Rare Not Random: Using Token Efficiency for Secrets Scanning

Entropy often struggles with generic secrets and short strings. We look at how token efficiency can better identify strings that don’t look like normal text.

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