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I want to provide online access to documents to specific people, but not to others, by providing a link. What would be a secure way of doing so? For instance ...
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I want to provide online access to documents to specific people, but not to others, by providing a link. What would be a secure way of doing so? For instance I could encrypt the file name such that the recipient will receive an email saying:
Please click on this link: http://www.example.com/files/g43jhn5m7pp0.pdf
as opposed to
Please click on this link: http://www.example.com/files/confide...yagreement.pdf
What is such technique called and is it really recommended? I suppose entering a rule in my robots.txt file to prevent crawling this site by bots is a good idea too? Obviously it would be good if the file manager or control panel would still show a full file name (confidentialityagreement.pdf), but the encrypted version is created on the fly.
Are there other, equally secure ways of providing online access to documents?Last edited by technossomy; 06-05-2008 at 08:48 PM. Reason: Syntactical
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