Re: Securely Sharing Files with External Entities

["DiGrazia, Mick A" <mick.digrazia () UCONN EDU>]

I can vouch for FileLocker. Brett Davis of Purdue created a really nice app and we found that it works well and will 
suite our needs nicely. We intend to deploy it in around a month or so


Mick A. DiGrazia
University of Connecticut
Information Technology Services
(860) 486-1336
mick.digrazia () uconn edu

On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Michael J. Wheeler wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who responded both on-list and off-list. There are a few candidates that I can see thus far:
>
> F*EX - http://freshmeat.net/projects/fffex - This doesn't look very polished. The interface reminds me a lot of 
> SquirrelMail, which our users hate. :)
> FileLocker2 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filelocker2/ - Looks to be very polished and integrates with LDAP (a 
> plus).
> Dropbox2 - http://turin.nss.udel.edu/programming/dropbox2/ - Looks to be good as well, also integrates with LDAP.
>
> At this point, I think we're going to explore FileLocker2 and see how it goes. It seems to cover all our needs quite 
> well.
>
> Again, a big thanks to everyone who responded and pitched in ideas!
>
>
> --
> Michael J. Wheeler
> Assistant Director, Systems and Networking
> Pittsburg State University
> Phone:  620-235-4610
> E-mail: mwheeler () pittstate edu
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael J. Wheeler" <mwheeler () pittstate edu>
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 9:40:45 AM
> Subject: [SECURITY] Securely Sharing Files with External Entities
>
> We're looking for a piece of software -- that we can host on our own servers -- which allows our users to upload a 
> file, create a HTTPS link for it, and set an expire time and password (shared out of band) for the link. There are 
> several web-based services that can do this, but I haven't found anything that we can host ourselves. 
>
> We have a piece of software called Xythos (owned by Blackboard now) that can do this, but it's way too complicated 
> for our users to drive and has too many features for our needs. So, they're just resorting back to emailing files 
> again.
>
> We'd prefer something that can be hosted on a LAMP stack, and if it can do Shibboleth (via Apache Auth if necessary) 
> or LDAP auth, it would be highly desirable. I ran across an application called FileZ (https://github.com/tini/FileZ), 
> which was created by a French University, but it doesn't want to install and it appears that the installer is broken.
>
> --
> Michael J. Wheeler
> Assistant Director, Systems and Networking
> Pittsburg State University
> Phone:  620-235-4610
> E-mail: mwheeler () pittstate edu