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* remove old ZeroBin 0.19 guide, this is so old already, few people will benefit from a direct link in the Readme. It stays in the wiki for those, who need it.
* add direct link to the FAQ - it's one of our best documentation/sources, so it's a shame it is not featured more prominently 😉
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# [](https://privatebin.info/)
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*Current version: 1.3.2*
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**PrivateBin** is a minimalist, open source online [pastebin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin)
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where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.
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Data is encrypted and decrypted in the browser using 256bit AES in [Galois Counter mode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois/Counter_Mode).
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This is a fork of ZeroBin, originally developed by
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[Sébastien Sauvage](https://github.com/sebsauvage/ZeroBin). ZeroBin was refactored
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to allow easier and cleaner extensions. PrivateBin has many more features than the
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original ZeroBin. It is, however, still fully compatible to the original ZeroBin 0.19
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data storage scheme. Therefore, such installations can be upgraded to PrivateBin
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without losing any data.
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## What PrivateBin provides
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+ As a server administrator you don't have to worry if your users post content
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that is considered illegal in your country. You have no knowledge of any
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of the pastes content. If requested or enforced, you can delete any paste from
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your system.
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+ Pastebin-like system to store text documents, code samples, etc.
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+ Encryption of data sent to server.
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+ Possibility to set a password which is required to read the paste. It further
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protects a paste and prevents people stumbling upon your paste's link
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from being able to read it without the password.
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## What it doesn't provide
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- As a user you have to trust the server administrator not to inject any malicious
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javascript code.
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For basic security, the PrivateBin installation *has to provide HTTPS*!
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Otherwise you would also have to trust your internet provider, and any country
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the traffic passes through.
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Additionally the instance should be secured by
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[HSTS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security) and
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ideally by [HPKP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning) using a
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certificate. It can use traditional certificate authorities and/or use
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[DNSSEC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensions)
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protected
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[DANE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Named_Entities)
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record.
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- The "key" used to encrypt the paste is part of the URL. If you publicly post
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the URL of a paste that is not password-protected, anyone can read it.
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Use a password if you want your paste to be private. In this case, make sure to
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use a strong password and only share it privately and end-to-end-encrypted.
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- A server admin might be forced to hand over access logs to the authorities.
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PrivateBin encrypts your text and the discussion contents, but who accessed a
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paste (first) might still be disclosed via access logs.
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- In case of a server breach your data is secure as it is only stored encrypted
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on the server. However, the server could be misused or the server admin could
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be legally forced into sending malicious JavaScript to all web users, which
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grabs the decryption key and sends it to the server when a user accesses a
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PrivateBin.
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Therefore, do not access any PrivateBin instance if you think it has been
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compromised. As long as no user accesses this instance with a previously
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generated URL, the content can't be decrypted.
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## Options
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Some features are optional and can be enabled or disabled in the [configuration
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file](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/wiki/Configuration):
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* Password protection
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* Discussions, anonymous or with nicknames and IP based identicons or vizhashes
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* Expiration times, including a "forever" and "burn after reading" option
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* Markdown format support for HTML formatted pastes, including preview function
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* Syntax highlighting for source code using prettify.js, including 4 prettify
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themes
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* File upload support, images get displayed (disabled by default, possibility
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to adjust size limit)
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* Templates: By default there are bootstrap CSS, darkstrap and "classic ZeroBin"
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to choose from and it is easy to adapt these to your own websites layout or
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create your own.
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* Translation system and automatic browser language detection (if enabled in
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browser)
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* Language selection (disabled by default, as it uses a session cookie)
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* QR code generation of URL, to easily transfer pastes over to a mobile device
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## Further resources
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* [FAQ](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/wiki/FAQ)
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* [Installation guide](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/blob/master/INSTALL.md#installation)
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* [Configuration guide](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/wiki/Configuration)
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* [Templates](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/wiki/Templates)
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* [Translation guide](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/wiki/Translation)
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* [Developer guide](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/wiki/Development)
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Run into any issues? Have ideas for further developments? Please
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[report](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/issues) them!
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