1. What is IPasteIt and how does it work?
IPasteIt (ipasteit.bond) is a minimalist, developer-tailored text and code sharing utility. You paste your code or logs, select an optional expiration or password, and get an instant, shareable URL. You can share formatted previews via the browser or pipe raw text directly into terminal tools.
2. Do I need an account to create and share pastes?
No. Anonymous visitors have full access to create public or unlisted pastes, enable burn-after-reading, set passphrases, and stream raw endpoints. When you create an anonymous paste, we provide a private management token so you can edit or delete it anytime without an account.
3. How does Burn After Reading work?
When Burn After Reading is enabled, the paste self-destructs the exact millisecond the recipient successfully opens it. Our PostgreSQL backend executes an atomic conditional transaction to ensure the payload is destroyed and cannot be re-read or cached.
4. How does zero-knowledge passphrase encryption protect my data?
For password-protected pastes, cryptographic key derivation occurs entirely inside your browser via WebCrypto AES-GCM-256 with PBKDF2/Argon2id. The plaintext password and unencrypted code never leave your machine; our servers only store the encrypted ciphertext and authentication tag.
5. How do I stream or download raw pastes with curl from the terminal?
Every paste gets a clean, plain-text endpoint at https://ipasteit.bond/raw/{slug}. You can stream it in bash using: curl -s https://ipasteit.bond/raw/{slug} or create a paste directly with: cat file.py | curl -s --data-binary @- https://ipasteit.bond/api/pastes.
6. Can I edit or delete my anonymous pastes later?
Yes. When you generate an anonymous paste, the success screen displays a high-entropy management token. Save this token. When visiting the paste URL, you can enter your management token to edit or permanently delete the paste.
7. What programming languages and syntax highlighting are supported?
IPasteIt supports over 25 languages via CodeMirror 6, including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, SQL, HTML, CSS, Markdown, JSON, YAML, C, C++, Java, PHP, Bash, and plain text.
8. How do I report malicious, phishing, or copyrighted content?
We take security, copyright, and user support very seriously. You can report abusive pastes immediately using our web reporting form at /report, email support@ipasteit.bond for general assistance, or email copyright@ipasteit.bond for DMCA takedowns.