Phantomvox: A Review Of Secure File Sharing Platforms

Abstract

Secure Digital File Sharing Has Become A Fundamental Requirement For Individuals, Enterprises, And Regulated Industries In An Era Characterized By Pervasive Data Breaches And Expanding Regulatory Obligations. Traditional File-Sharing Solutions—Consumer Cloud Drives, Email Attachments, And Ftp Servers—Consistently Fail To Provide End-To-End Encryption, Granular Access Control, Cryptographic File Integrity Verification, And Tamper-Evident Audit Trails. This Review Paper Analyses The Academic And Standards Literature Underpinning Modern Secure File Sharing And Uses That Analysis To Contextualise The Design Of Phantomvox, A Proposed Full-Stack Web Application That Integrates Aes-256-Gcm Encryption At Rest, Tls 1.3 In Transit, Role-Based Access Control (Rbac), Multi-Factor Authentication Using Totp, Sha-256 Integrity Verification, And An Append-Only Hash-Chained Audit Log Into A Unified Platform. Six Literature Sources Spanning Symmetric Encryption, Transport Security, Authentication, Access Control, And Compliance Logging Are Critically Reviewed, And Five Persistent Research Gaps Are Identified: Absence Of Unified End-To-End Encryption In Accessible Tools, Weak Access Control Defaults, Insufficient Auditability, Lack Of File Integrity Enforcement, And Poor Usability Of Secure Sharing Workflows. The Phantomvox System Directly Addresses Each Gap Through Its Modular Architecture, Built On Node.Js, Express.Js, React, And Postgresql, And Is Demonstrated To Satisfy All Functional, Security, And Performance Requirements Through Comprehensive Testing.

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