sieving

sieving is a scanner that allows users to hide sensitive data from their files. It is really useful if you want to share your files without spreading precious data, but also if you store for a long time your files, and want to prevent yourself from any leak.

Installing Sieving

There are different ways to install sieving. The first method is particularly meant to be used by non-developer users.

Non-developer users

First click on "Releases" :

You should see the last release on your screen (v0.2.0 when we are writing this). Depending on your OS (Windows, Linux or Mac), click on one the three files highlighted.

It should download the file on your device. Then you need to uncompress it.

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Windows

We are using 7zip to unzip sieving-windows.tar.gz. Put the extracted file in C:\Windows\System32, and the installation is completed. You should now be able to use sieving in a terminal.

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Linux

Extract sieving-linux.tar.gz wherever you want on your device. Finally, open a terminal and type the following command sudo cp PATH_TO_SIEVING /usr/local/bin (replace PATH_TO_SIEVING by the path to where you extracted sieving in the previous step).

The installation is completed, you should now be able to use sieving in a terminal.

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MacOS

Extract sieving-linux.tar.gz in usr/local/bin.

The installation is completed, you should now be able to use Excavator in a terminal.

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Developer users

This part is meant to users who want to contribute to the development of sieving. You will need first to have the Rust Programming Language installed on your device. Once, you have Rust, you can easily install sieving from crates.io.

$ cargo install sieving

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How to use sieving?

sieving takes only one argument : the path to the file (or directory) you want to analyze and protect. Open a terminal and type the following command:

$ sieving PATH_TO_YOUR_FILE_OR_DIRECTORY

Then sieving will analyze your files and eventually detect some sensitive data. For example with this file:

if we run sieving:

You need to type yes or no depending on if you want to hide data or not.

For our example, here is the file after scanning it:

What sensitive data are currently managed by sieving?

It is really easy for developers to contribute to sieving and particularly to add new sensitive data managed by the scanner. So if you have any idea of what data could/should be hidden, please feel free to open an issue. Currently, sieving manages :

-Email addresses

-IP addresses

-IBAN

-Japanese Phone Number