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Ask HN: Best service to upload user documents securely?

3 pointsby iraldirabout 5 years ago
Hi everyone, as part of a side project SAAS I&#x27;m building, I want my user to be able to upload documents (PDF files of up to 4 pages I would imagine). Those document can contain sensitive and personal information, so I&#x27;d rather not have them on my server for security reasons. Ideally, I&#x27;d like an API from a third party service which allows me to integrate a document upload and retrieval from the interface of my webapp, without those documents going to my server.<p>I must not be searching for the correct thing as I fail to find even one service doing that.<p>Any advice?

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Jugurthaalmost 5 years ago
Maybe you can have Google Drive, Box, Dropbox integrations. You could then request permissions via oauth and upload &#x2F; retrieve document on the user&#x27;s behalf. This also allows users to upload&#x2F;read documents using said applications application and yours.<p>User visits your site and wants to upload a document. They see the logos for Box, Dropbox, Drive, and click on whichever they prefer&#x2F;have an account for. You authenticate then upload the document to a specific folder in a specific namespace in that drive (user_drive_box_dropbox&#x2F;acme_saas&#x2F;foo.pdf).<p>For people who don&#x27;t have an account in any, you can use the same integration to upload documents to <i>your</i> drive&#x27;s acme_saas_drive&#x2F;user_id&#x2F;foo.pdf.<p>This way users have control over their data, and you fan out adding integrations one after the other.
dmarlowalmost 5 years ago
S3, Blob Storage?