Design and Implementation of a Secure Web-Based File Exchange Server: Specification Design Document

TL;DR

This paper details the design and implementation of a secure web-based file exchange system that employs bi-directional authentication using LDAP and certificates, ensuring secure and authenticated file sharing.

Contribution

It introduces a novel secure file exchange system integrating web, LDAP, and certificate-based authentication with open-source technologies.

Findings

Successful implementation of bi-directional authentication

Enhanced security through LDAP and certificate integration

System supports secure, authenticated file exchange

Abstract

We report on the software engineering design and implementation of an web- and LDAP-based secure file exchange system with bi-directional authentication of all parties involved in the process that is the user's browsers and the application server mutually authenticate, and the application and database servers authenticate using certificates, credentials, etcs. with the directory service provided by LDAP using open-source technologies.