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Please have a look at these questions *before* opening an issue in this repo.
## Why have you changed your name?
PrivateBin started as a fork of [ZeroBin](https://github.com/sebsauvage/ZeroBin). As PrivateBin got developed independently of ZeroBin and many new features were added, the design was improved and many security vulnerabilities were fixed, so we thought it was time for a change, which displays the development efforts, which were used to improve PrivateBin.
## Why is it named "PrivateBin"?
We have [asked the ZeroBin community](https://github.com/elrido/ZeroBin/issues/79) and chose the most popular name.
![resultspollzerobinnewname](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/11966684/17937861/e2488d0e-6a23-11e6-8009-2770d9eee8ab.png)
## Should I switch from ZeroBin to PrivateBin?
In short: Yes.
The longer answer is: ZeroBin is outdated and not maintained anymore. As you may know, using software, which is not maintained anymore is generally a bad idea as it gets no security fixes. In this case you can have a look at all [closed security issues](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Asecurity+is%3Aclosed) and you'll see that these are a lot. Among others we handled all issues [discovered by an security audit](https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/issues/20) from 2014 and we enhanced the security further by implementing many new security features.
You may also look at the release notes of PrivateBin to see what else changed.
## How to fix "There is no suitable CSPRNG installed on your system"?
This error means you do not have a secure cryptographic random number generator installed on your system. This is however required by PrivateBin for security reasons.