Detection of plain strings

[anotherbridge]

Describe the solution you'd like
In some cases it may be useful to not perform a full regex search, since the "regex" you're trying to search may break down to a simple string. Therefore it might be useful to turn off the regex search if the pre-check with a single keyword was successful. I guess this could speed up the detection significanlty especially if there are a lot of these rules in a ruleset. An example here would be a certain list of known leaked credentials that should be included as rules, but doesn't follow any specific pattern that can nicely be formulated in regex.

If there is an already existing method or any better way of doing this with the currently implemented features of gitleaks I would be glad to get to know about them.

Describe alternatives you've considered
At the moment I am building rules like that as follows:

[[rules]]
id = "known-leaked-credential-0"
description = "Known Leaked Credential"
tags = ["leak"]
regex = '''<my-leaked-credential>'''
keywords = [
    "<my-leaked-credential>",
]

cc @zricethezav

[Richard Gomez]

I think it would be worth doing a benchmark. My intuition is that keywords + regex matching literals is already fast enough that any potential increase would be negligible.

[somkanade-arzooo]

@anotherbridge In above example are you trying to detect all the secret which contain word/string ?