Ask HN: What about a community-driven paste service?
Hi hackers !
I launched a really really simple paste service ( http://yaap.it ). It's a fully community-driven project. For now, the paste service has no extra (useless ? YOU decide.) features. To participate, go to the github repo: http://github.com/SeyZ/yaapit
My questions are:
- Do you use a paste service ? If yes, which ones ?
- I hate abusive advertising. And you ?
- Do you care about the privacy control of the paste content (encrypted paste) ?
- Do you care about a new community-driven paste service ?
(Feature request are welcome ! http://github.com/SeyZ/yaapit/issues)
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I would really need to know exactly what you mean by client side encryption. In its current incarnation I wouldn't use YAAP to send anything sensitive since I don't know how safe it is.
Btw, the URLs are way too long. Any possibility of shortening them?
Before sending the content:
1) The paste text is encrypted using aes-256-cbc algorithm.
2) A secure random token (a simple ID) is generated.
3) The secure random secret key is generated.
4) The url will be http://yaap.it/paste/<ID>#<secret_key>;
5) The encrypted content and the ID is sent to the server. The anchor (the secret key) is never sent !
6) When you give the url to someone, the ID and the secret key is still in the url. So the content can be decrypted (client-side too) thanks to this information.
To shorten the paste url, you can use an external service. BUT, the external service will have the secret key. It depends on what you want. Maybe an idea ?
2. I love the fact that every content sent through the network is encrypted. The only unsafe part is how we, users, share the URL since it contains the secret key.
3. Yaap.it sounds good.
4. No pub is good. Any limitations of size / yaaps per seconds ?