File Transfer System Research Articles

Blockchain Based Secure File Transfer System with Password Protection

The need of secure file transfer systems is higher nowadays. In order to enhance the security and privacy of private information transferred over the internet, our paper presents a blockchain-based secure file transfer system (BSFTS) with password protection. This system takes advantage of the decentralized and immutable properties of blockchain technology to ensure that every file transfer is Safe and Secure, offering verifiable audit trails that can minimize the threats associated with data tampering and unauthorized access. Through forcing people to use strong, unique passwords for decryption as well as encryption, the combination of password protection further secures files by ensuring that only specified people may access the information. In addition to enhancing data confidentiality, this dual-layer strategy increases defences against possible cyberthreats, including phishing and brute force attacks. Research shows that the blockchain-based secure file transfer system with password protection far exceeds standard file transfer techniques in terms of security and user experience. The results illustrate that password protection and blockchain technology work together to build a robust framework for secure file sharing. For companies trying to enhance their data protection plans in the face of changing security threats in the world of technology, this study provides helpful data

Turnstile File Transfer: A Unidirectional System for Medium-Security Isolated Clusters

Data transfer between isolated clusters is imperative for cybersecurity education, research, and testing. Such techniques facilitate hands-on cybersecurity learning in isolated clusters, allow cybersecurity students to practice with various hacking tools, and develop professional cybersecurity technical skills. Educators often use these remote learning environments for research as well. Researchers and students use these isolated environments to test sophisticated hardware, software, and procedures using full-fledged operating systems, networks, and applications. Virus and malware researchers may wish to release suspected malicious software in a controlled environment to observe their behavior better or gain the information needed to assist their reverse engineering processes. The isolation prevents harm to networked systems. However, there are times when the data is required to move in such quantities or speeds that it makes downloading onto an intermediate device untenable. This study proposes a novel turnstile model, a mechanism for one-way file transfer from one enterprise system to another without allowing data leakage. This system protects data integrity and security by connecting the isolated environment to the external network via a locked-down interconnection. Using medium-security isolated clusters, the researchers successfully developed a unidirectional file transfer system that acts as a one-way “turnstile” for secure file transfer between systems not connected to the internet or other external networks. The Turnstile system (source code available at github.com/monnin/turnstile) provides unidirectional file transfer between two computer systems. The solution enabled data to be transferred from a source system to a destination system without allowing any data to be transferred back in the opposite direction. The researchers found an automated process of transferring external files to isolated clusters optimized the transfer speed of external files to isolated clusters using Linux distributions and commands.

Scheduled File Transfer Job Failures: Reasons and Remediation Measures from an MFT Perspective

Scheduled pull jobs/file transfers are a critical and widely used automation element of Managed File Transfer (MFT) systems. These pull jobs may fail for a number of reasons, including wrong file path, missing the file availability window, misconfigured pull request, authentication issues, and network connectivity issues (temporary). These issues can be remediated by establishing proper communication channels between clients and hosts and updating the clients with necessary information like file paths, dependencies, etc.

Refining Password Policies within IBM's Sterling Integrator for Enhanced Managed File Transfer Security

Robust password policies are crucial for securing Managed File Transfer (MFT) systems. IBM's Sterling Integrator, a leading platform in MFT, necessitates stringent password protocols to mitigate cyber threats. This paper proposes an enhanced password policy framework for Sterling Integrator, focusing on balancing security requirements with user experience. By integrating advanced authentication mechanisms and leveraging user psychology, we aim to fortify MFT security without compromising usability

Secure File Storage & Sharing on Cloud Using Cryptography

In today’s world, simply having the capacity to transfer a file from one location to another isn’t enough. Businesses today face multiple security threats and a highly competitive environment. So they need a secure file transfer system to protect and reliably transfer their sensitive, business-critical data. Secure file transfer is a method of data sharing via a secure, reliable delivery method. Also, we use this between a client and a server. Cryptography is a technique that we use for securing information and communication in the presence of third parties. We use this technique to ensure that only those persons to whom the information is intended can read this. By using cryptography, we can prevent unauthorized users from accessing the information which is shared privately. In this paper, the plan proposed is to overcome the issues regarding the data that are being stored by the users on the cloud should be encrypted rather than storing them in a plain form such that the data will be protected from the attackers who are trying to read, delete or manipulate the data. Our application is focused on securely authenticating the user, before storing and sharing files, To create an application that lets a user encrypt and decrypt any type of file without any changes in the size during encryption & decryption, store every user data in the encrypted form on the cloud, to provide a communication medium between users via the chat application, to give direct access to the file for CRUD operation only to the owner.

Personal Cloud Storage and File-Sharing Platform in PiGen

This project presents the development of personal cloud storage and file transfer systems with the help of Raspberry Pi 3 and Hard disk drive devices. The main aim of the project is to save your files locally on your Hard Disk Drive connected to the Raspberry Pi as well, access files remotely even if you are not connected to the WI-FI which is also connected to Raspberry Pi, and share them with anyone you wish to.

A Safe Web in Network Separation Environment

This paper describes a technique for constructing network separation and proposes a method for providing convenience to users by using it. This paper analyzes the background of the Korean government’s adoption of the network separation policy. And there are various techniques for configuring network separation. NAC, media control solution and file transfer system are essential for network separation. Because just running two networks does not guarantee secure. This paper considers ways to provide efficiency and convenience to the extent allowed by the network separation policy. In this paper, Using Headless Browser, transform web pages into electronic documents. The converted electronic document does not contain malicious code. Several Headless browser packages were used to implement and test assuming a virtual network separation. Web scraping technology worked reliably, almost all browsers can read and display PDF file. In this paper, we have defined a safe web prototype in a network separation environment.

DDBJ Database updates and computational infrastructure enhancement.

The Bioinformation and DDBJ Center (https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp) in the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) maintains a primary nucleotide sequence database as a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) in partnership with the US National Center for Biotechnology Information and the European Bioinformatics Institute. The NIG operates the NIG supercomputer as a computational basis for the construction of DDBJ databases and as a large-scale computational resource for Japanese biologists and medical researchers. In order to accommodate the rapidly growing amount of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) nucleotide sequence data, NIG replaced its supercomputer system, which is designed for big data analysis of genome data, in early 2019. The new system is equipped with 30 PB of DNA data archiving storage; large-scale parallel distributed file systems (13.8 PB in total) and 1.1 PFLOPS computation nodes and graphics processing units (GPUs). Moreover, as a starting point of developing multi-cloud infrastructure of bioinformatics, we have also installed an automatic file transfer system that allows users to prevent data lock-in and to achieve cost/performance balance by exploiting the most suitable environment from among the supercomputer and public clouds for different workloads.

Multithreading-Based design and implementation of distributed file transfer system

File is an important form of data exchange in application system, but It is restricted by the file size and the network environment between application systems, lacks of effective technical solutions for efficient and stable transmission of files, we consider the design principles of loose coupling, scalability and high availability, design a distributed file transfer system based on multithreading; The scheme designs the module of API, Broker, NameServer, contacts moudles by the way of Socket connection, forms a complete file transmission channel in the application system, and provides convenient and abundant file transfer process information to help application system know file transfer process, at the same time, adopts key technologies such as multithreading, distributed architecture, breakpoint renewal and so on, guarantees file transmission efficiency, satisfies the needs of file exchange between application systems better.

Dynamic load balancing scheme on massive file transfer system

In this paper, a dynamic load balancing scheme applied to massive file transfer system is proposed. The scheme is designed to load balance FTP server cluster. Instead of recording connection number, runtime load information of each server is periodically collected and used in combination of static performance parameters collected on server startup to calculate the weight of servers. Improved Weighted Round-Robin algorithm is adopted in this scheme. Importantly, the weight of each server is initialized with static performance parameters and dynamically modified according to the runtime load. Apache Zookeeper cluster is used to receive all information and it will inform director of the runtime load variation and offline behavior of any server. In order to evaluate the effect of this scheme, a contrast experiment with LVS is also conducted.

A comparison of different database technologies for the CMS AsyncStageOut transfer database

AsyncStageOut (ASO) is the component of the CMS distributed data analysis system (CRAB) that manages users transfers in a centrally controlled way using the File Transfer System (FTS3) at CERN. It addresses a major weakness of the previous, decentralized model, namely that the transfer of the user’s output data to a single remote site was part of the job execution, resulting in inefficient use of job slots and an unacceptable failure rate.Currently ASO manages up to 600k files of various sizes per day from more than 500 users per month, spread over more than 100 sites. ASO uses a NoSQL database (CouchDB) as internal bookkeeping and as way to communicate with other CRAB components. Since ASO/CRAB were put in production in 2014, the number of transfers constantly increased up to a point where the pressure to the central CouchDB instance became critical, creating new challenges for the system scalability, performance, and monitoring. This forced a re-engineering of the ASO application to increase its scalability and lowering its operational effort.In this contribution we present a comparison of the performance of the current NoSQL implementation and a new SQL implementation, and how their different strengths and features influenced the design choices and operational experience. We also discuss other architectural changes introduced in the system to handle the increasing load and latency in delivering output to the user.

The Design of Secure File Transfer with Speech Recognition

The design of a secure file transfer system using Speech Recognition technique is investigated. Though cryptography enforces protection specifications, complements various other protection mechanisms. Different file types are enciphered by different cryptographic keys, supplied at access time by the users, who are being authorized using speech recognition technique. Several protection implementation schemes are analyzed according to the criteria such as: security, efficiency, and user convenience.

The impact of the Population Health Research Network on linked data research capacity in Australia

ABSTRACTObjectivesIn 2009 Australian governments and academic institutions made a substantial investment to establish the Population Health Research Network (PHRN), a distributed research infrastructure network which provides Australian researchers with state-of-the-art data linkage facilities and services. The infrastructure operates on a collaborative, national, non-exclusive basis and enables Australian researchers to address key national and global challenges.
 We have conducted a review of the PHRN’s progress over the last 6 years in achieving its objectives of:1. increasing the data linkage research capacity in Australia2. enabling research in national priority areas.
 ApproachProgress with achieving the first objective was measured by comparing the data linkage facilities and services available in Australia in 2008-09 with those available in 2014-15. The following categories of services and facilities were used in the analysis:
 
 Linkage facilities
 Application, access and storage facilities
 Information, training and education
 
 Changes in usage of the data linkage infrastructure over the period 2008-09 to 2014-15 were measured.
 The second objective was achieved by using bibliometrics to assess academic impact, in the form of citations, of peer-reviewed publications which arose from use of the PHRN infrastructure. The topics of all of the publications were compared to health priority areas to determine the extent to which the infrastructure has been used to inform national priorities.
 ResultsThere has been a significant expansion of the data linkage facilities from a small number of jurisdictional data linkage units to a distributed network of data linkage units servicing researchers in every state and territory. A cross-jurisdictional data linkage capability has also been established as well as a national online data application system, a secure remote access laboratory and a secure file transfer system. A variety of information, training and education has been provided to stakeholders. The expansion of the facilities and services has seen usage of data linkage units triple since 2011-12.
 The number of peer-reviewed publications resulting from the use of the PHRN infrastructure has increased every year since 2011-12. There were 111 publications in 2014-15. Areas of high burden of disease in Australia, cancer, cardiovascular and endocrine diseases are highly represented in the publications.
 ConclusionThere has been a significant increase in data linkage research infrastructure in Australia from 2008-09 to 2014-15. This has resulted in an increase in both the number of research projects conducted using linked data and the number of related peer-reviewed publications.

A Study of Integrity on the Security Patches System Using PM-FTS

A variety of operating systems and application programs on the internet have weak points in terms of security. Intelligent attacks on such weak points have been spreading rapidly, causing a lot of damage. In particular, the files downloaded use Application Programming Interface, an intermediate interface between operating systems and application programs, for their running. At that time, attacks on weak points of the application programs are made. In such a principle, users are infected with the malicious codes disguised in the process of updating security patches. Therefore, this work tries to propose a system for integrity security patch updating using PM-FTS (Patch Management---File Transfer System).

Design and Implementation of a Fast Algorithm for File Integrity Verification

At present, MD5 algorithm is commonly used in the file transfer system to conduct the tests of file integrity, but when a file is too large, it will take a long time to generate MD5 code for the whole file, with the result of reducing the transmission efficiency of the file. Based on this conduction, a fast algorithm of file integrity detection is provided, which can generate MD5 code with the file size and some random content of the file. Although the algorithm cannot test files roundly, it is integrated into the file transfer system. The test results show that this algorithm can detect the file integrity faster, and when the file is damaged or tampered with, the probability of detecting changes of the file content is higher than the theoretical value. The algorithm has great value in engineering applications.

Experiences Building Globus Genomics: A Next-Generation Sequencing Analysis Service using Galaxy, Globus, and Amazon Web Services.

We describe Globus Genomics, a system that we have developed for rapid analysis of large quantities of next-generation sequencing (NGS) genomic data. This system achieves a high degree of end-to-end automation that encompasses every stage of data analysis including initial data retrieval from remote sequencing centers or storage (via the Globus file transfer system); specification, configuration, and reuse of multi-step processing pipelines (via the Galaxy workflow system); creation of custom Amazon Machine Images and on-demand resource acquisition via a specialized elastic provisioner (on Amazon EC2); and efficient scheduling of these pipelines over many processors (via the HTCondor scheduler). The system allows biomedical researchers to perform rapid analysis of large NGS datasets in a fully automated manner, without software installation or a need for any local computing infrastructure. We report performance and cost results for some representative workloads.

Quick Task Queue Management Software Design

In order to accelerate the transmission speed of a large number of documents in file transmission system, achieve fast recovery and restart the transmission in the case of accident, this paper presents a fast task queue management method. By establishing task file transmission queue quickly, and making use of fault recovery module, fast task queue management software not only recovers files effectively which transfer failed unexpectedly, but also realizes saving and restoring rapidly in file transfer system. The software has three functions: the file status real-time monitoring, reading the breakpoint recovery and system log. Test results show that the software improves the efficiency of task management and builds task lists quickly. It also recovers task queue to the breakpoints quickly which are failed to execute at the last time, and continues to perform the task when a fault occurs in the task queue. The software runs steadily , especially , the design idea of the software which has great value in engineering application is instructive.

Quick Task Queue Management Software Design

In order to accelerate the transmission speed of a large number of documents in file transmission system, achieve fast recovery and restart the transmission in the case of accident, this paper presents a fast task queue management method. By establishing task file transmission queue quickly, and making use of fault recovery module, fast task queue management software not only recovers files effectively which transfer failed unexpectedly, but also realizes saving and restoring rapidly in file transfer system. The software has three functions: the file status real-time monitoring, reading the breakpoint recovery and system log. Test results show that the software improves the efficiency of task management and builds task lists quickly. It also recovers task queue to the breakpoints quickly which are failed to execute at the last time, and continues to perform the task when a fault occurs in the task queue. The software runs steadily , especially , the design idea of the software which has great value in engineering application is instructive.

WEB APPLICATION BASED FILE TRANSFER IN CUSTOMIZED CLOUD

Web Application based File Transfer app in a Custom ized Cloud is an open source and cloud web app base d on the File Transfer system application which should be organized, desig ned by the app designer and developed by the app de veloper, the webapp based file transfer system which it runs on the open clou d web server with the graphical user based interfac e system. The user interface turns automatically the customized web application environment into file transfer system management sy stem. It uses the cloud web directory automated services with the powerful mana gement tools as the web file transfer with the mult iple options in the admin dashboard interface. It allows to configure the cus tom designs. Web application users or the web app scan be modified or updated according to the developer needs, so the web file t ransfer application visitors or the users can open the webapp accounts in the file transfer web application for creating the file tran sfer based user accounts. It can store or save the unlimited data without any bandwidth permissions. As the webapp administrator allows the web moderators to setup the individual u ser quotas and the customized quota for the portal users known as the quota system for webapp. The application administra tors and the application moderators will get the full access to the webapp p ortal administration managing area and to the permi ssions to block the individual and the unknown users, webapp site ads can be embed ded into the webapp site portal or the cloud file twebsite. This application can also be converted into the cus tomized individual mobile application such as for t he various os- android, the windows phone etc. It allows the individual users o r individual administrators to share their experien ce in the form of comments and the customized user article modules. Webapp portal enables to allow the various file formats where it can store the data files and other data on the file transfer oriented web-cloud. It’s as fully loaded features with the directory service mode in order to optimize the custom data and to optimize the file transfer orien ted cloud server optimization. Web application can also be deployed on any file transfer system. The web app can be installed on th e various operating platform which it allows the ad ministrators to embed the search engine into the Cloud File Transfer Web site .

60-GHz End-Fire Fan-Like Antennas With Wide Beamwidth

A patent-pending end-fire planar fan-like antenna is proposed for wide beamwidth applications. Two wideband antipodal tapered slot (ATS) elements are utilized to configure a fan-like structure for generating wide-angle radiation. The antennas are prototyped using RO4003 printed-circuit board (PCB) at 60 GHz. One antenna with a size of 13 × 12 × 0.203 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> achieves a beamwidth up to 184 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">°</sup> at 60 GHz, | <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">S</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">11</sub> | of less than -11 dB, and gain of 1.6 to 6 dBi over 59 to 64 GHz. The other antenna prototype with a size of 15.5 × 13.6 × 0.203 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> exhibits a beamwidth up to 104 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">°</sup> at 60 GHz, | <i xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">S</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">11</sub> | of less than -18 dB and gain of 3.4 to 7.6 dBi over 59 to 64 GHz. The proposed antenna can be used for deployment in low-cost 60-GHz ultra-high-speed wireless file-transfer systems.