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If you want to get weird with it, you could try: https://file.pizza/ Should be relatively secure ... it's peer-to-peer, and in theory should be secure. I've used it for trivial stuff before, and it works pretty well. https://github.com/kern/filepizza#faq Mozilla and Firefox have a tool that I would say you could probably trust reasonably enough as well. https://send.firefox.com/ GPG is really still I think the gold standard... it really fits much better into that "Trust No One" security model ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_no_one_(Internet_security) ). --Ray On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:00 PM Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Elizabeth Leonard wrote: > > > Let say your faculty have research files that they want to securely > share with researchers at another academic institutions (say, on another > continent). What are secure ways that they can do this? > > > Just yesterday I was thinking about just this thing, and my suggestion is > the implementation of a local HTTP server. Fire it up. Create a directory. > Save one or more files in the directory. Optionally apply some > authentication to the directory. Share URL(s). Wait for files to be > downloaded. Shutdown the server. Yes, the process requires some practice, > and local networking policies may prohibit such things, but it costs zero > dollars, does not require third parties, and one has total control over > their own data. --Eric Morgan > -- Ray Voelker (937) 620-1830