Zerobin, Open Source Pastebin Alternative With Client-Side Encryption
Pastebin is a free service on the Internet that lets you paste and publish text contents easily. Accounts are not required for basic functionality, and there are features such as syntax highlighting available when code is pasted and published on the site.
Zerobin is a new open source Pastebin alternative that is currently available as an alpha version. One of the big differences between the two services is that Zerobin encrypts contents on the client side before they are send to the server. This basically means that the server has no information of the contents of the text that is stored on it.
When you load the Zerobin website you are presented with a big text field that you can paste contents in / type text in, an expiration menu and a send button. Once you have added the text, you select one of the available expiration options (never, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 1day, 1 month, 1 year) and hit the send button afterwards.
You then receive the url that is pointing to the text. This address includes the encryption key that is needed to decrypt the message. Users who do not have the key cannot encrypt the message. There is also an option to shorten that long url, which may be useful before posting it on Twitter or another external site. The data is compressed and encrypted with a 256bit AES algorithm in the browser.
The project website details how Zerobin works. The url that points to the text basically consists of a unique identifier that is stored on the server, and the encryption key that is used to encrypt the test in the browser before it is uploaded to the server. The server has knowledge of the unique identifier but not the encryption key.
The developer plans to integrate syntax highlighting, which is missing at the moment, and password protection to the service. It also needs to be noted that the current implementation is experimental in nature, and that data uploaded to the server may be deleted at any point in time.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.