HACKER Q&A
📣 akashcoach

Tool to share/exchange personal and confidential files


What tool do you use to share/exchange personal and confidential files with outside organizations ? Size of the files can be large in many GBs. Security is the main concern. Tool should be web based.

  👤 plz-remove-card Accepted Answer ✓
> Size of the files can be large in many GBs.

> Security is the main concern.

> Tool should be web based.

From your question it kinda sounds you actually have 3 main concerns, not just security. I can't give you any suggestions for web based tools but I can suggest:

1. Obtain a public SSH key out-of-band with the party that needs the large file and give them access to an SFTP share with that key.

2. Upload the file to a private S3 bucket and send them a signed link[1]

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/ShareO...

👤 bobbiechen
Based on your non-technical users, you may want something with a Dropbox-like UI that can be self-hosted, like PsiTransfer https://github.com/psi-4ward/psitransfer .

If you're hosting in the cloud, you can improve the security posture using confidential computing like AWS Nitro Enclaves. Contact me at bobbie.chen@anjuna.io if you'd like more info on getting started with that.

👤 runjake
SFTP.

For non-technical partners, we have a simple instructional document on how to download and use Filezilla[1] to connect. We haven't had many challenges.

1. https://filezilla-project.org/