I built Sentinel: A blazing fast, regex-free secret scanner in Go 🛡️

If you’ve ever used standard secret scanners (like Gitleaks or TruffleHog) in a heavy CI/CD pipeline, you’ve probably hit the "Catastrophic Backtracking" wall. A massive minified JS file slips in, the regex engine chokes, and your pipeline freezes.

I got extremely frustrated with the performance bottlenecks and false positives, so I decided to rewrite the architecture from scratch.

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