Re: Securely Sharing Files with External Entities

["Michael J. Wheeler" <mwheeler () PITTSTATE EDU>]

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!


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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.

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Michael J. Wheeler
Assistant Director, Systems and Networking
Pittsburg State University
Phone:  620-235-4610
E-mail: mwheeler () pittstate edu