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Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers)
From: Wyman Miles <wm63 () CORNELL EDU>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 14:57:57 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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
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- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Sheri J Thompson (May 07)
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- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Bruhn, Mark S (May 07)
- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Wyman Miles (May 07)
- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Vuong Phung (May 07)
- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Lovaas,Steven (May 07)
- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Russell Fulton (May 07)
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- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Jason Hardy (May 08)
- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Fowler, Steve (May 16)
- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Patrick Hood (May 16)
- Re: Web-based file sharing/dropbox apps (was RE: Secure file transfers) Jason Hardy (May 18)