BitVault

DISCLAIMER: This Repo is derived from the great Microbin Project. As the original Project seems to be abandoned, I made some minor updates to my taste - thus removing any telemetry and utilizing some more up to date rust libraries. I might or might not continue development from this point.

TL:DR: The Main Target of this Project is:

Maintaining the great Microbin Project
Increasing Privacy and removing features, which are not necessary
Adding some convenience-features without decreasing the main goals of privacy, simplicity and security
A new color-scheme - orange is the obvious choice, because of our ideals
Replacing the Animal names with BIP39-words

BitVault is a super tiny, feature rich, configurable, self-contained and self-hosted paste bin web application. It is very easy to set up and use, and will only require a few megabytes of memory and disk storage. It takes only a couple minutes to set it up, why not give it a try now?

TOR HiddenService for demonstration: http://bvaultb5wmxcxxapep7tnq2zrkjva6ry7uekfcsxpsxts2ve5qmf4iyd.onion/

Build from source

# Install rust and git if necessary (Arch Linux)
sudo pacman -S rust git

# clone repository & build w. cargo
git clone https://github.com/overcuriousity/bitvault
cd bitvault
cargo build --release
cargo run --release

# one-liner to build:
sudo pacman -S rust git && \
git clone https://github.com/overcuriousity/bitvault && \
cd bitvault && \
cargo build --release

Create systemd service to run it automatically:

# Example /etc/systemd/system/bitvault.service
[Unit]
Description=BitVault
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RootDirectory=/

# This is the user that will be used to run the executable
User=<insert username>
# This is where BitVault will save your data
WorkingDirectory=/home/<insert username>/
# This is the location of the compiled binary which we did with cargo before 
ExecStart=/home/<insert username>/bitvault/target/release/bitvault

Environment="BITVAULT_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin"
Environment="BITVAULT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=changeme
Environment="BITVAULT_PORT=8080"
Environment="BITVAULT_BIND=0.0.0.0"
Environment="BITVAULT_PUBLIC_PATH=https://bitvault.example.org"
# Environment="BITVAULT_SHORT_PATH=https://short.net"
Environment="BITVAULT_JSON_DB=false"
Environment="BITVAULT_EDITABLE=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_HIDE_HEADER=false"
Environment="BITVAULT_HIDE_FOOTER=false"
Environment="BITVAULT_HIDE_LOGO=false"
Environment="BITVAULT_NO_LISTING=false"
Environment="BITVAULT_READONLY=false"
Environment="BITVAULT_SHOW_READ_STATS=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_THREADS=2"
Environment="BITVAULT_GC_DAYS=90"
Environment="BITVAULT_WIDE=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_ETERNAL_PASTA=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_PRIVATE=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_HIGHLIGHTSYNTAX=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_QR=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_ENABLE_BURN_AFTER=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_ENABLE_READONLY=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_DEFAULT_EXPIRY=24hour"
Environment="BITVAULT_NO_FILE_UPLOAD=false"
Environment="BITVAULT_HASH_IDS=false"
Environment="BITVAULT_ENCRYPTION_CLIENT_SIDE=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_ENCRYPTION_SERVER_SIDE=true"
Environment="BITVAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE_ENCRYPTED_MB=2048"
Environment="BITVAULT_MAX_FILE_SIZE_UNENCRYPTED_MB=2048"
# Environment="BITVAULT_BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME=something"
# Environment="BITVAULT_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD=something"
# Environment="BITVAULT_CUSTOM_CSS="https://myserver.com/custom.css""
Environment="BITVAULT_TITLE=BitVault"
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

On the original developers website microbin.eu you will find the following:

Features

Entirely self-contained executable, BitVault is a single file!
Server-side and client-side encryption
File uploads (eg. server.com/file/this-awesome-project)
Raw text serving (eg. server.com/raw/this-awesome-project)
QR code support
URL shortening and redirection
BIP39-words instead of random numbers for upload identifiers (2048 words)
SQLite and JSON database support
Private and public, editable and uneditable, automatically and never expiring uploads
Automatic dark mode and custom styling support with very little CSS and only vanilla JS (see water.css)
And much more!

What is an upload?

In BitVault, an upload can be:

A text that you want to paste from one machine to another, eg. some code,
A file that you want to share, eg. a video that is too large for Discord, a zip with a code project in it or an image,

When is BitVault useful?

You can use BitVault:

To send long texts to other people
To send large files to other people
To share secrets or sensitive documents securely
As a URL shortener/redirect service
To serve content on the web, eg. configuration files for testing, images, or any other file content using the Raw functionality
To move files between your desktop and a server you access from the console
As a "postbox" service where people can upload their files or texts, but they cannot see or remove what others sent you
Or even to take quick notes

BitVault is available under the GPL-3 License, while the original Project was published under BSD 3-Clause License.