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Re: [hylafax-users] confidential faxes
A J Stiles wrote:
On Thursday 08 December 2005 12:32, Joe wrote:
Not necessarily. I'm just looking for a way to have hylafax provide
confidential faxes. I don't care how (client or server) it gets done,
just that it gets done. It's a requirement for HIPPA supposedly.
Well, if someone can't spell HIPAA, then they probably have next to no chance
of complying with it :)
Without a doubt!!! lol!
The web page idea has legs. I think what you need to do is: Display just the
first page of the fax on the receptionist's screen {I'm guessing only a
human receptionist can decide who the fax is for, otherwise you can
automate-out this step}. This can be done with a simple CGI-script. The
receptionist chooses who the fax belongs to and saves the full content to a
directory {one per recipient}. Also in this directory is a simple
CGI-script to display the fax as a web page, and a .htaccess file which
prevents anyone who doesn't know the password from viewing anything in the
directory.
This introduces a whole host of other problems. Need for a web server,
backups, etc... but anyway... Can you provide a pointer to where
I could look for examples of the simple cgi scripts you mention? I'm not
asking to be taught cgi... I just don't know what direction your headed
with this. Are you talking about converting the tifs to jpegs/gifs?
This is just as secure as e-mail; more so if the web server is https {there
is no reason not to; apache 2 supports this out of the box. You'll hafta pay
for a proper secure certificate if you don't want dire warnings; but even
using the default "Snake Oil" certificate is secure, just not demonstrably
so}.
Note that anyone with the root password can view anyone's faxes; and anyone
with access to the phone line can potentially intercept faxes as they arrive.
It also would be prudent that the partition you use for /tmp is no bigger
than it need be, so done-with data gets overwritten as soon as possible.
--
AJS
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