Encrypted documents

We have a need for files that are uploaded by the user to be encrypted "at rest" to prevent system administrators from accessing those documents.  Does anyone have experience with this?   We are interested in any options, disk encryption, plugins, calls to command line tools.   In particular we're interested in a) how, and b) how were the keys stored.

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  • Hi Richard,

    I am afraid we cannot directly do this with in Appian document managment system and all the documents present in Appian will be browsed and viewed by system administrator.

    But there is work aorund you can think. Instead of Appian document system, we can store the encrypted document in database. There is an Appian plugin "Base64 Document Database Integration" (Smart services) available here - community.appian.com/.../base64-document-database-integration

    This particular plugin can encrypt the document into Base 64 and store the document in database. Also stored document can be retrieved when its needed and ofcourse this document cannot be viewed by system administrator directly instead he has to use only Appian process via this plugin to retrive the document into Appian.

    Hope this solution helps.

    Thanks - Naveen
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  • Hi Richard,

    I am afraid we cannot directly do this with in Appian document managment system and all the documents present in Appian will be browsed and viewed by system administrator.

    But there is work aorund you can think. Instead of Appian document system, we can store the encrypted document in database. There is an Appian plugin "Base64 Document Database Integration" (Smart services) available here - community.appian.com/.../base64-document-database-integration

    This particular plugin can encrypt the document into Base 64 and store the document in database. Also stored document can be retrieved when its needed and ofcourse this document cannot be viewed by system administrator directly instead he has to use only Appian process via this plugin to retrive the document into Appian.

    Hope this solution helps.

    Thanks - Naveen
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