Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers)

[Wyman Miles <wm63 () CORNELL EDU>]

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Someone in student academic services wrote Cornell's, so I know little more
about it than its existence.  The one I wrote for Rice was nothing more
than a fairly good-sized swath of disk space with an authenticated CGI at
the head of it.  Users could supply a destination e-mail list and a file,
we'd store it and send out a time-sensitive URL containing a sanitized
filename (we did some Windows to UNIX translation) along with an MD5 of the
file.  Seven days later, the file was gone.

You'll want to build in some sort of guest upload access so your users can
extend the use of the tool to non-campus users.  And you'll definitely want
automated expiration for both files and guest accounts.  And some heavy
auditing of the latter.

Wy


- --On Monday, May 07, 2007 1:43 PM -0500 "Dugan, Darin D [EIT]"
<dddugan () IASTATE EDU> wrote:

> Who has a web-based file sharing / dropbox /
> web-upload-instead-of-email-attachment solution they'd like to tell me
> about?
>
> My department is looking to enhance or replace ours, and it seems a
> common task. I see no benefit to using a commercial provider, but could
> see the benefits of shared source with our fellow edu's. As always, I
> can summarize to the list if there are sufficient responses/interest.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Darin Dugan, System Admin
> Iowa State University Extension
> www.extension.iastate.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wyman Miles [mailto:wm63 () CORNELL EDU]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 1:27 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Secure file transfers
>
> <snip>
> Cornell's got a homegrown app called dropbox that does what Rice's
> homegrown app, webfile did, that does what many campuses have built.
> <snip>
>
> Wyman Miles
> Senior Security Engineer
> Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
> (607) 255-8421



Wyman Miles
Senior Security Engineer
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
(607) 255-8421
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