Generate an encrypted burn-after-reading link for passwords and notes. After the recipient views it, the secret is permanently destroyed.
Your text is stored as ciphertext. The link carries what is needed to decrypt on reveal. After the allowed view count or TTL, the ciphertext is deleted — the same URL cannot reveal the content again.
Set max_views up to 10 so multiple people can read the same secret before it burns. Useful for shared credentials that a small team all need to see once.
Create a One-Time Secret Link exists to make a single-view secret link and confirm a second visit does not reveal it again. 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 Create a One-Time Secret Link in order. 1. Set views to 1. 2. Create the link and open it in a private window once. 3. Reload that window and confirm the secret is gone. 4. Only then send a fresh link to the real recipient. 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.
Testing the link yourself spends the only view. A preview bot in Slack or email can spend the view before the person does. The page does not recover a burned secret. 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 open your own link to check it, then send that same URL. The recipient sees an empty or expired secret. Create a second link after the test, or test with max views set to 2 and understand the first open is the test.
After you finish Create a One-Time Secret Link, open the burn-link page if you want the same idea under that name 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.
The secret is destroyed after the allowed view count so the same link cannot reveal the content again.
Yes. Set max_views up to 10 when creating the secret — useful for sending to a small team who all need to read it once.
Same job — ephemeral encrypted notes — available at rookvpn.com/secret with optional passphrase protection and configurable max views.
The secret can be read the number of times you set, then the ciphertext is deleted.
Yes. Unfurl bots fetch the URL. Send it in a way that does not preview, or set an extra view and accept the risk.
The URL is the capability. The secret text is not a query parameter you can read off the link.