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adding remarks as discussed in #53
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elrido committed Nov 9, 2015
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# ZeroBin 0.21.1
# ZeroBin 0.22

ZeroBin is a minimalist, opensource online pastebin where the server has zero
knowledge of pasted data.
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- As a user you have to trust the server administrator, your internet provider
and any country the traffic passes not to inject any malicious javascript code.
Ideally, the ZeroBin installation used would provide HTTPS, secured by
[HSTS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security) and
[HKPH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning) using a
certificate either validated by a trusted third party (check the certificate
when first using a new ZeroBin instance) or self-signed by the server operator,
validated using a
[DNSSEC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensions) protected
[DANE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Named_Entities)
record.

- The "key" used to encrypt the paste is part of the URL. If you publicly post
the URL of a paste that is not password-protected, everybody can read it.
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