Method for enforcing document privacy through third party systems

摘要

The application discloses systems and methods for securing a document while routing through native or third party infrastructure. A process resident on the user's platform generates a three-part secure document from the user's original document. The first part is public and contains document metadata such as a public key. The public key is used to encrypt the second part of the document's metadata which includes a user supplied password. The third part contains the original document that has been symmetrically encrypted using the user supplied password. The result is that only the first part of the new document is visible to unsecured transmission channels or third party infrastructure.

主权项

1. An apparatus for generating a secured electronic document, wherein said apparatus comprises a non-volatile computer readable medium storing a plurality of programmatic instructions, wherein said programmatic instructions, when executed by a processor, generate the secured electronic document by:
receiving an unprotected document comprising content; receiving a public key specific to a document service; generating a first portion of said secured electronic document, wherein said first portion comprises said public key; generating a second document portion of said secured electronic document, wherein said second document portion comprises a password and wherein the second document portion is encrypted using said public key; generating a third document portion of said secured electronic document, wherein said third document portion comprises the content of the unprotected document wherein said third document portion is protected using said password; and forming said secured document using said first document portion, second document portion, and third document portion, thereby creating the secured electronic document having the public key, the password, and the content incorporated therein.