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This looks great! If you want a bit more privacy, you can use https://pastery.net https://pastery.net, the snippets can be configured to expire in a few minutes

This looks great! If you want a bit more privacy, you can use https://pastery.net https://pastery.net, the snippets can be configured to expire in a few minutes and expired snippets are deleted from the database.

imglorp 6y ago
Symmetric encryption would be good too.
- bradwood 6y ago
  It uses TLS over Gitlab's REST API and registers all snippets as private -- I figured this would probably be enough for a first cut.
dewey 6y ago
As it supports self-hosted Gitlab I'd guess that using that is even more privacy friendly than to send it to some pastebin website and trust that operation.
- bradwood 6y ago
  This is actually the main use-case for this. At work we have machines in different environments, but they all can see the self-hosted gitlab (although not each other). This just makes it easier to get bits of config or scripts from one environment to another with not too much pain.
  - specialist 6y ago
    I do like the auto expire feature idea. (h/t StavrosK, pastery.net) I skimmed your glsnip project and didn't spot that feature. I get that your team self hosts gitlab. Very clever. Nicely done. Pretty much every place I've ever worked has struggled with secure, ad hoc, short-lived file transfers, both large and tiny. (eg Someone in marketing needs a data dump that's too large to sneak thru as an attachment via corporate email.) "virtual sneaker net" Often, we give up and just pass around a thumb drive. Ridiculous.
    - bradwood 6y ago
      I don't think Gitlab does auto expiring of snippets, but I was thinking of adding `glsnip purge` to wipe the "clipboard" -- I may yet add it. I also toyed with making some kind of a `clipit` style clipboard stack with pushing and popping and listing items on the clipboard and all that... I may add that too if there is interest...

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This looks great! If you want a bit more privacy, you can use https://pastery.net https://pastery.net, the snippets can be configured to expire in a few minutes

by StavrosK 6y ago

imglorp 6y ago
Symmetric encryption would be good too.
- bradwood 6y ago
  It uses TLS over Gitlab's REST API and registers all snippets as private -- I figured this would probably be enough for a first cut.
dewey 6y ago
As it supports self-hosted Gitlab I'd guess that using that is even more privacy friendly than to send it to some pastebin website and trust that operation.
- bradwood 6y ago
  This is actually the main use-case for this. At work we have machines in different environments, but they all can see the self-hosted gitlab (although not each other). This just makes it easier to get bits of config or scripts from one environment to another with not too much pain.
  - specialist 6y ago
    I do like the auto expire feature idea. (h/t StavrosK, pastery.net) I skimmed your glsnip project and didn't spot that feature. I get that your team self hosts gitlab. Very clever. Nicely done. Pretty much every place I've ever worked has struggled with secure, ad hoc, short-lived file transfers, both large and tiny. (eg Someone in marketing needs a data dump that's too large to sneak thru as an attachment via corporate email.) "virtual sneaker net" Often, we give up and just pass around a thumb drive. Ridiculous.
    - bradwood 6y ago
      I don't think Gitlab does auto expiring of snippets, but I was thinking of adding `glsnip purge` to wipe the "clipboard" -- I may yet add it. I also toyed with making some kind of a `clipit` style clipboard stack with pushing and popping and listing items on the clipboard and all that... I may add that too if there is interest...