tesseras-paste

	Decentralized pastebin built on the tesseras-dht
	Kademlia DHT. Pastes are encrypted with XChaCha20-
	Poly1305, content-addressed via SHA-256, and
	replicated across the network. No accounts, no
	databases, no JavaScript.

	"In the beginning there was the server,
	 and the server was centralized,
	 and the centralized was fragile,
	 and the fragile was doomed."

		-- Apocrypha of the Lost Nodes


Why

	Pastebin.com sold out and filled with ads.
	Ghostbin shut down. Hastebin went offline.
	ZeroBin stopped being maintained.
	PrivateBin requires a server you must trust.

	Every centralized pastebin is one decision away
	from disappearing, censoring, or monetizing your
	content.

	We got tired of renting someone else's clipboard.

	tesseras-paste has no single point of failure.
	No company can shut it down. No server can be
	seized. Your paste lives as long as the network
	has nodes.


Philosophy

	We believe in:
	  - Code you can read in an afternoon
	  - Protocols you can implement in a weekend
	  - Systems that work without permission
	  - Networks that survive their creators

	We do not believe in:
	  - Move fast and break things
	  - Microservices for a text file
	  - 400MB Docker images to serve hello world
	  - npm install the-entire-internet


How it works

	1. You write text (or pipe it from stdin)
	2. tp encrypts it with a random key
	3. SHA-256 hashes the ciphertext into a content
	   address
	4. The encrypted blob is stored on the K-closest
	   DHT nodes
	5. The URL contains the only key that decrypts it
	6. The network never sees your plaintext


Quick start

	Install from crates.io:

		$ cargo install tesseras-paste

	Start the daemon (connects to the public bootstrap
	nodes automatically via DNS SRV):

		$ tpd -d /var/tesseras-paste -w 9999

	Create a paste:

		$ echo 'hello world' | tp put
		4zxDwJQEte37CQE4xzVCB1GaNodBprLUHjHcWzhTqP7Y#...

	Retrieve it:

		$ tp get 4zxDwJQEte37CQE4xzVCB1GaNodBprLUHjHcWzhTqP7Y#...
		hello world

	Public (unencrypted) paste:

		$ echo 'visible to all' | tp put -p
		EbpnKntDRBkuDKJuFKY7Ke7jM9ygtLCSYpmykXvzWb8U

	Pin a paste so it never expires:

		$ tp pin <key>


Bootstrap nodes

	bootstrap1.tesseras.net	port 4433
	bootstrap2.tesseras.net	port 4433


Source code

	official	https://got.tesseras.net
	mirror		https://git.tesseras.net
	sourcehut	https://git.sr.ht/~ijanc/tesseras
	github		https://github.com/tesseras-net


Donate

	Bitcoin	bc1qm3srpwnpe3y58mhn7lp37lyw0s45tfdganvat5


Website

	https://tesseras.net


Greets

	To my beloved Aninha, for the patience and love.

	To the cypherpunks, for writing code instead
	of laws.

	To OpenBSD, for building an OS where security
	is not a feature but a principle.

	To everyone running a node: you ARE the network.


See also

	tp(1)	https://p.tesseras.net/64RQsdrPsmtdYzLQX9SQN3NBkuU1fD1pQMGdYkUXERV5
	tpd(1)	https://p.tesseras.net/Ho4jVs1tj4endcZ3ymus3Tm33XGze2tz2K8Qey4EMTRD