Pastey
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A Jolt app · requires Jolt ↗

Share the paste.
Keep the keys.

Pastey is a small desktop app for public and encrypted pastes over the Jolt network. Public pastes are signed by your identity and fetchable by anyone at a .jolt address. Encrypted pastes stay private to you or the recipients you name.

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A paste leaving your device as either a public signed paste or an encrypted envelope You write a paste on your device. A public paste is signed by your Jolt identity and anyone can fetch it by its .jolt address. An encrypted paste travels as a sealed envelope, and relays only ever see ciphertext. ONE PASTE · PUBLIC OR ENCRYPTED JOLT NETWORK YOU YOUR PASTE written on this device RELAY sees only ciphertext ANYONEpublic · signed RECIPIENTSencrypted · invited jolt://…/pastes/notes PUBLIC · SIGNEDENCRYPTED · SEALEDRELAYS HOLD CIPHERTEXT

01 / Why Pastey

A paste is small.
Ownership is not.

Even something as simple as sharing a snippet of text can run on an identity you own, with privacy the network cannot peek through.

  1. 01

    Bring your identity

    Public pastes are signed by your Jolt identity and published under a .jolt address. There is no Pastey account, and no username to register.

  2. 02

    Approve the app

    Pastey runs against your local Jolt daemon through a capability-scoped session you approve in Jolt Console, limited to paths under /pastes/*.

  3. 03

    Seal what is private

    Encrypted pastes use Jolt's encrypted object envelopes. Only you, or the recipients you list, can open them. Relays only ever see ciphertext.

02 / What you can do

Publish, fetch,
and share in private.

Pastey keeps the surface small: write a paste, choose public or encrypted, and hand out its address. The Jolt daemon does the signing and sealing.

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Public pastes

Publish text under /pastes/{slug}. The paste is signed by your Jolt identity, and anyone can fetch and verify it by its .jolt address.

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Encrypted pastes

Seal a paste inside Jolt's encrypted object envelope for yourself or a list of recipient identities. Everyone else, relays included, sees ciphertext.

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jolt://…/pastes/notes

Fetch by address

Open any paste by its .jolt address or content ID. If it was encrypted for you, your local daemon decrypts it after its capability checks pass.

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Optional pinning

If your Jolt node has a home relay, Pastey can ask it to pin your paste content for availability. Publishing and fetching work without one.

03 / Architecture

Pastey is the app.
Jolt holds the keys.

Pastey is only the editor and the viewer. It uses a scoped session with your local Jolt daemon, which holds your identity, signs and seals every paste, and talks to the network.

How Pastey works with Jolt Pastey uses a capability-scoped session with the local Jolt daemon. The daemon signs public pastes, seals encrypted ones, and communicates with Jolt peer nodes and Jolt relay nodes. THIS DEVICE JOLT NETWORK P PASTEY editor + viewer APP API SCOPED SESSION · /pastes/* LOCAL JOLT DAEMON jolt-node Checks Pastey's grant Signs + seals pastes Stores content + logs keys never enter Pastey JOLT PEER NODE signed state + content JOLT RELAY NODE ciphertext · optional pinning Pastey uses Jolt. It never touches your keys.
Pastey talks only to the capability-scoped App API, approved in Jolt Console and limited to /pastes/*. The local daemon keeps the keys, signs public pastes, seals encrypted ones, and communicates with peer or relay nodes.

IF PASTEY VANISHEDyour identity and pastes would still be yours.

WHAT PASTEY NEVER GETSyour private identity key.

Experimental v0

An early, honest
prototype.

Pastey is one of the first two apps built on Jolt, alongside Spoke. It is desktop-first, Jolt must be running on your computer, and you approve Pastey's session before it can publish anything. Expect rough edges.

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AVAILABLE
  • Public pastes under /pastes/{slug}
  • Encrypted pastes for recipient lists
  • Fetch by .jolt address or CID
  • List your published pastes
  • Optional home-relay pinning
V0 LIMITS
  • Manual Jolt approval
  • No recipient edits after publish
  • No key management UI
  • Unsigned macOS build
  • No security audit

Latest release ↗

Jolt first.
Pastey second.

Pastey connects to the Jolt node running on your computer. Once Jolt is installed and running, choose the Pastey build for your platform. Each button fetches the latest tagged release.

Required first

Pastey cannot run standalone. Jolt holds your identity, joins the network, and asks you to approve Pastey's /pastes/* session before the app can publish.

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01 Linuxx86_64 AppImage Download ↓ 02 macOSApple silicon DMG Download ↓ 03 Windowsx86_64 Installer Download ↓

The macOS build is not yet notarized. If it is blocked after installation, allow it under Privacy & Security.

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