Hi

I've noticed while using this function that it excludes certain strings from being found despite their containing CCNs which would be picked up by the regular expressions, due to the start block - e.g. if 4444 5555 6666 7777 (just as an example) gets picked up, .4444 5555 6666 7777 or -4444 5555 6666 7777 do not

Why is the start block included when it does this?

ComposisteFinder allows one to combine multiple Finders into a single Finder.
If any of the component Finders find a match then its reported. If multiple compnent Finders find a match, they are all reported.

To detect Quasi identifiers, we need a GroupFinder, one which reports a match only if all the component finders detect some element in the text - eg. (name, zip code , dob)

Currently Chlorine-finder scans a text without considering any format of text.
It will be good to add a layer which can detect the format or use a specified format, then parse the file to scan only the values instead of scanning everything.

Once the match is found, the match is cleaned of any commas or spaces.
This can be done as part of regex matching so that we match does not include commas or leading/trailing spaces,

If an part of an element is detected to be one type, then skip that portion for further detection

All methods do not have javadoc comments.
Make sure that all methods are accurately documented.

Currently, the FinderEngine accepts a string to scan using its finders.
Add functions in FinderEngine to read its input from an InputStream , FIle etc.

A compliance suite is a set of Finders which detect the presence of different sensitive elements.
The compliance suite is commonly associated with a specific compliance requirement like HIPAA or PCI..

Add a feature so that we can create a compliance suite as a set of finders. One way to do this is to add an optional suites tag for the finders. This can be a comma separated list s each finder can be associated with multiple suites.

Add ability to mask sensitive values using multiple mechanisms.

Implement Redaction as the first mechanism.

Currently MaskFactoryand Redactor allows limited ability to configure new Makser. This should be improved.
We need to allow similar configuration capabilities as that of FinderEngine to provide consistensy and configurability

Different countries have different identification numbers. US has SSN. India has Adhaar.Write finders to detect identification number of different countries.