Share passwords, API keys, and sensitive notes with encrypted burn links that destroy themselves after viewing — no Slack or email residue.
Recipients open the link once. After the reveal, ciphertext is deleted so the same URL cannot be reused.
Chat apps keep searchable history and may unfurl links. One-time secrets are built for credentials that should not linger.
Add a password so even a leaked link cannot reveal the secret without the shared passphrase.
Burn Link — One-Time Secret Sharing exists to create an encrypted link that deletes a short secret after the allowed views or the timer, whichever comes first. It is not a second copy of the tool homepage. The homepage introduces the whole product. This page stays on one job so a search for that job lands on instructions you can follow without hunting through other tabs. Read the result on this page against the input you actually used. A screenshot without the input is not evidence. If the result surprises you, change one thing and run it again before you change your VPN, browser, or server config.
Work through Burn Link — One-Time Secret Sharing in order. 1. Type the secret in the box. Do not email it as well. 2. Set views and expiry before you create the link. 3. Send the link in a channel that does not also contain the secret. 4. Assume the link is spent after the recipient opens it. Write down the input and the output together. When you ask someone for help, send both. Repeat the same input once. A stable tool returns the same answer. If it does not, the input changed or the page is talking to a different network path than you think.
RookSecret is for short secrets, not for large files. Anyone with the link can open it until it burns. The tool cannot stop a recipient from copying the text. Treat the output as a measurement, then decide. RookVPN does not log the contents of a client-side tool, and a measurement is not a promise that every other app on the device behaves the same way. Compare a second path when the decision matters: a terminal command, another browser, or the matching guide linked below.
Example: you create a one-view link for a Wi-Fi password and send it in chat. The recipient opens it, the server deletes the ciphertext, and a second open fails. If you also pasted the password beside the link, the burn did nothing. Send the link alone.
After you finish Burn Link — One-Time Secret Sharing, open RookFile if the payload is a file, or RookPass if you still need to generate the password if the next question is different from the one this page answers. Stay here if you are still on the same job. Extra pages help only when they answer a new question, such as a different algorithm, a different leak channel, or a different file type. The documentation link on this page is the long form of the same workflow, including the checks that do not fit in the tool UI.
Use Burn Link — One-Time Secret Sharing for one job: to create an encrypted link that deletes a short secret after the allowed views or the timer, whichever comes first. Bring the before-and-after evidence with you if you change a setting. A VPN icon, a decoded token, a generated password, or a stripped file is not finished until you have checked the output the way this page describes. Then follow the related guide for the long version, and the sibling tool only when the next job is actually different. Keep secrets out of the same message as the link or the file that needs them. If a second run does not match the first, stop and find what changed instead of publishing the first result.
Example: you create a one-view link for a Wi-Fi password and send it in chat. The recipient opens it, the server deletes the ciphertext, and a second open fails. If you also pasted the password beside the link, the burn did nothing. Send the link alone. Work the page in this order: Type the secret in the box. Do not email it as well. Set views and expiry before you create the link. Send the link in a channel that does not also contain the secret. Assume the link is spent after the recipient opens it. Limits that still apply after a clean result: RookSecret is for short secrets, not for large files. Anyone with the link can open it until it burns. The tool cannot stop a recipient from copying the text.
A burn link is a one-time URL that reveals an encrypted secret a limited number of times — usually once — then permanently deletes it so the same link cannot be reused.
A URL that reveals encrypted content a limited number of times — usually once — then permanently deletes it. Same idea as a burn link.
No. Create and share a burn link at rookvpn.com/secret without signing up.
By default, links expire after 24 hours or after the allowed number of views — whichever comes first. You can set a custom TTL (1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days) when creating the secret.
By default, secrets burn after one view. You can set max_views up to 10 when creating — useful for sending to a small team who all need to read the same secret.
The ciphertext is stored until burn. The link is what you send. Do not send the secret beside it.