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Nice and clean! I feel like the biggest issues with pastebins are: - Data is known by the provider - Not enough economic incentive to keep the pastebin runni
by jokethrowaway 3y ago
Nice and clean!
I feel like the biggest issues with pastebins are:
- Data is known by the provider
- Not enough economic incentive to keep the pastebin running for a long time (you still need pocket money and some maintenance to keep it running)
- jdthedisciple 3y agoGood point and I'm also big on privacy. But you could extremely easily wrap some End-to-End-Encryption around this, right? In fact I might just try and do that when I find the time soon.
- JLCarveth 3y agoBefore I made the web interface I had been using gpg to encrypt my pastes before sending them. https://github.com/JLCarveth/nutty/blob/master/client.sh https://github.com/JLCarveth/nutty/blob/master/client.sh
- GOATS- 3y ago0bin, another popular Pastebin alternative, solved this problem by encrypting the paste on the client and embedding the key in the paste URL - so the server had no idea about the data being posted.
- sli 3y agoIf the key is just in the URL, what's stopping them from simply obtaining the key out of their access logs and decrypting whatever they want?
- leesalminen 3y agoPresumably they’re placing it in the # part of the url, which isn’t passed to servers by browsers. Now, of course, the client could still exfiltrate the key with client side JS, but that would be noticeable to anyone that wanted to check.
- corbezzoli 3y agoThe biggest issue with pastebins is definitely not that. Look into why most pastebins close doors (hint: people aren’t nice)