A pastebin alternative
Paste it, lock it, let it expire.
Anon.Paste is the text half of Anon.Cat. Logs, configs, snippets, a wall of stack trace. Paste it, pick how long it lives, and send the link.
- Lifetimes from ten minutes to never, and never is literal
- Optional password, encrypted with XChaCha20-Poly1305 and Argon2id
- No account, no editor plugin, no syntax gymnastics
- Up to 512 KB of text per paste
Upload a file No account. No email. Just the file.
Passwords that we cannot undo
A protected paste is encrypted before it is written. The key comes from your password through Argon2id, and only ciphertext ever reaches the disk.
Your password is never stored, not even as a hash. We cannot read a protected paste, and neither can anyone who walks off with the database. The flip side is real: a forgotten password cannot be recovered by anyone, including us. Choose one you will remember.
Never means never
Some hosts quietly delete anything that goes unread for a few months. Here, a paste set to never expire is kept until someone deletes it, however long it sits unread.
If you want the opposite, ten minutes is also on the menu, which is usually the right answer for a token you are pasting to a colleague.
Files live next door
If the thing you are sharing is not text, the upload page takes up to 1 GB per file with the same lack of ceremony: no account, no email, automatic expiry.
Same site, same rules, one less service to remember.
Questions people actually ask
How long can a paste live?
From ten minutes to twenty four hours, or never. A paste set to never is kept until it is deleted.
Are pastes really encrypted?
Password protected ones are, with XChaCha20-Poly1305 and a key derived through Argon2id. Pastes without a password are stored as plain text, so do not put secrets in one.
Can I recover a lost paste password?
No. The password is never stored in any form, so there is nothing to recover it from.
How large can a paste be?
512 KB of text. Anything larger belongs in a file upload.