Behind the scenes of GitHub Token Scanning

This post details the evolution of GitHub's token scanning capabilities beyond just GitHub OAuth tokens. It describes the limitations of the previous assembly-based scanner and the transition to a more extensible, Go-based scanner utilizing the Hyperscan library. The post also outlines the private beta program with cloud service providers to test the scanning of various cloud credentials and unencrypted SSH private keys, and announces the public beta of this enhanced token scanning feature.