PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. PrivateBin started as a fork of ZeroBin. The fork continued development after ZeroBin stopped being updated.
Data is encrypted and decrypted in the browser using 256bit AES in Galois Counter mode.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- As a server administrator you don’t have to worry if your users post content that is considered illegal in your country. You have plausible deniability of any of the pastes content. If requested or enforced, you can delete any paste from your system.
- Pastebin-like system to store text documents, code samples, etc.
- Encryption of data sent to server.
- Possibility to set a password which is required to read the paste. It further protects a paste and prevents people stumbling upon your paste’s link from being able to read it without the password.
- Password protection.
- Discussions, anonymous or with nicknames and IP based identicons or vizhashes.
- Expiration times, including a “forever” and “burn after reading” option.
- Markdown format support for HTML formatted pastes, including preview function.
- Syntax highlighting for source code using prettify.js, including 4 prettify themes.
- File upload support, image, media and PDF preview (disabled by default, size limit adjustable).
- Templates: By default there are bootstrap CSS, darkstrap and “classic ZeroBin” to choose from and it is easy to adapt these to your own websites layout or create your own.
- Translation system and automatic browser language detection (if enabled in browser).
- Language selection (disabled by default, as it uses a session cookie).
- QR code for paste URLs, to easily transfer them over to mobile devices.
Website: privatebin.info
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Simon Rupf, rugk, R4SAS, and numerous past contributors
License: Zlib/libpng license
PrivateBin is written in PHP and JavaScript. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| MicroBin | Super tiny, feature rich, configurable, and self-contained |
| wastebin | Minimal pastebin |
| Drift | Self-hostable Gist and paste service |
| NoPaste | Client-side paste service |
| Paste69 | Go-based pastebin service |
| lesma | Simple paste app, friendly with browser and command line |
| bin | Minimal pastebin |
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