Snippet Share
Paste a block of text, optionally protect it with a password and set it to expire, and get a link back. There's no server storing it, the whole thing lives inside the link, encrypted in your browser if you add a password.
Your Text
Whatever's here becomes the link below. Nothing is sent anywhere until you click Create Link, and even then it only ever goes into the link itself.
Created this session
Lost when you refresh or leave this page. These are just links, nothing is stored anywhere else.
A Brief History of the Pastebin
Pastebin.com launched in 2002, built by a programmer who was tired of pasting code into IRC chat one line at a time and wanted a link he could drop instead. The idea spread fast, since it solved a problem every developer had, and dozens of clones followed. For most of that history, though, the tradeoff was the same one every one of them made: your text sat in plaintext on someone else's server, readable by anyone who ran it. Services like PrivateBin and ZeroBin later pioneered "zero-knowledge" pastes, encrypting content in the browser before it ever reached the server, so even the host couldn't read it. This tool takes that a step further: there's no server at all, encrypted or not. The link is the only copy that exists.
Common Snippet Share Questions
Is my text actually stored anywhere?
No. There's no database and nothing on a server. The text is compressed, optionally encrypted, and packed entirely into the part of the link after the #, which browsers never send to a server at all, even to load this page. Delete the link, and there's no other copy anywhere.
How does the password actually work?
It's real encryption, not just obfuscation. Your password is run through PBKDF2 to derive an AES-GCM encryption key entirely in your browser, and that key encrypts the text before it's packed into the link. The password itself is never included in the link, so it has to be shared with whoever's reading it some other way, the same as any password.
What happens if I forget the password?
The text is unrecoverable. There's no server to reset a password against and no account tied to the link, so a forgotten password behaves exactly like a lost key: the encrypted text is still sitting there, permanently unreadable.
Does the link ever expire?
Not unless you set one. You can optionally have a link expire after 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, or 30 days; the expiry is packed into the link itself and checked by this page the moment it's opened, and left off, the link stays valid for as long as it exists and someone has it. Worth knowing: there's still no server deleting anything, so this is enforced by the page's own logic, a courtesy for tidying up casual shares, not a guarantee against someone with the raw link and enough know-how to ignore it.
How much text can I actually share?
Up to 20,000 characters, though the practical limit is really how long a link stays easy to share. Compression usually shrinks ordinary text by 40 to 65%, so a paragraph or two makes a very manageable link; several thousand characters makes a long one that's better copied than typed.
Is this a good place for real secrets, like passwords or API keys?
Treat it like a locked box, not a vault. The encryption itself is real, but anyone who ends up with both the link and the password can read it, and links can end up saved in places you don't control, like browser history or a chat app's link previews. For anything highly sensitive, a proper secrets manager is the safer tool.