Question

I need to be able to encrypt files before storing them on S3, and then decrypt them when accessing them. The files will be images, documents, PDF, etc.

I am using Carrierwave to handle the file upload and storage (this is with Ruby on Rails). I am storing them in Amazon S3.

Has anyone done this, or have any ideas how this would be achieved?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Amazon has now released functionality that lets you encrypt/decrypt files automatically in S3. The need to do this yourself is no longer there. Details are here http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/index.html?UsingEncryption.html