About Dropbox

The Caltech SFP Summer Student Dropbox allows you to securely send files to the Caltech Student-Faculty Programs office.

After 96.0 hours, Dropbox will delete your uploaded file, and the URL will become invalid.

Conceptual design

We made Dropbox to satisfy the following requirements:

  • Should not require the use of a special client.
  • Should be unattractive as an illicit file distribution center.
  • Should not require people to have local accounts or to authenticate at all.
  • Should be usable under all operating systems.
  • Transferred files should be accessible only to the intended recipient.
  • Should clean up after itself.