"more secure" 3rd-party file sharing?

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Wed Aug 23 00:37:00 EDT 2006


Problem: people misaddress e-mails, don't look at what their client is 
auto-completing for them, and generally send files to people who 
shouldn't get them.

Solutions?

discredited: making users care, making users cautious, replacing users' 
computers with dull pencils, forcing all users to use PGP or S/MIME.

first thought: some sort of bot one could send a file and description 
to that would respond with a URL to the sending user to add an 
allowed-users list and then send the intended recipients a link to a 
webpage where they can download the file.  This at least gets one layer 
of auditability, links can be expired, and SSL can be enforced.  Also 
requires blocking outbound 25, 465, 587 at the firewall and stripping 
attachments at the MTA.

Has anybody seen an implementation of such a thing?  Or have better 
ideas?

-Bill

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