[dev] Horde application for secure filesharing

Michael Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Tue Apr 28 15:38:15 UTC 2009


Quoting Andre Pawlowski <sqall at h4des.org>:

> Hi,
>
> I've written a Horde application for secure file sharing and want to
> ask, if the Horde team is interested in this application.

This looks interesting, but is there a reason that this couldn't be  
done using the existing Gollem application, with, perhaps a new VFS  
backend to handle the file encryption/decryption if needed?


> The idea behind this application is, that corporations can offer
> downloads for extern project members or something like that. Therefore
> they must create a Horde Account for this member and he can download the
> file via https. Because the file should be stored secure on the server
> (even in a compromized case the file should be safe) the file is stored
> encrypted. The whole encryption/decryption is done by the webserver and
> no extra program is needed. My own company was searching for a program
> like this and wasn't able to find something like it. So I've started to
> write it.
>
> Well, you guys can take a look at my application under
> http://h4des.org/index.php?inhalt=kastalia#description
> and tell me "what you think about it".
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --
>
> Andre Pawlowski
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Thanks,
mike

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