prevent leaking of credentials

[vks]

It is very common to leak credentials (see this). npm and github have precautions against leaking credentials:

So, the solution for this problem is to: [...] On npm and GitHub side — automatic search for their auth data in public packages/repositories at the time of publishing/committing/making a private repo public, then revoking the leaked tokens and resetting leaked passwords.

Maybe crates.io should implement something like this as well?

[lukaslueg]

This is already discussed over at rust-lang/cargo#2063.

[Eh2406]

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