Security Architecture
Destinations and slugs stay encrypted at rest.
SafeSlug is built for users and organizations who need short links without turning their link database into a readable map of every asset they share.
Encrypted before storage
Destination URLs and slugs are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they are saved, so raw destinations and slugs are not stored as plain text.
Decrypted only for redirect
The server decrypts the destination and slug only when a short link is requested and needs to redirect the visitor.
Analytics without raw IP retention
SafeSlug stores aggregated redirect signals such as visits, country, referrer, and device class without keeping raw IP addresses.
No-referrer redirects
Redirect responses include a no-referrer policy so destination sites do not receive your short-link domain as the source.
What makes a URL shortener truly private?
Standard shorteners store links and slugs in plain text. That means any internal breach, misconfigured backup, or data export exposes every URL, document path, and token you have ever shortened.
SafeSlug encrypts both destination URLs and custom slugs before writing to the database. Even if storage were dumped, links remain completely unreadable without the server-side environment keys.
Redirect analytics follow the same strict discipline: visit counts, high-level country codes, and device types are aggregated without ever saving raw visitor IP addresses.
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